Bernadette Hall
Bernadette Hall (born 1945 in Alexandra, New Zealand) is a New Zealand writer and poet. She was raised in what she describes as a small-city Catholic community that was proud, theatrical and pretty much enclosed.[1] After a career as a teacher of Latin and classical studies she started writing full-time in her forties.[2] She has held residencies at both Canterbury University and Victoria University[3] and is widely published.[1][4][5] She spent 10 years as the editor of Takahe magazine and five as the poetry editor of The Press, Christchurch's main daily newspaper.[5]
Hall's The Lustre Jug is a finalist in the 2010 New Zealand Post Book Awards.[6]
Works
Plays
Poetry Collections
- Heartwood (Caxton Press, Christchurch, 1989)[8]
- of Elephants etc. (Untold Press, 1990)[8]
- The Persistent Levitator (VUP, 1994)[8]
- Still Talking (VUP, 1997)[8]
- Settler Dreaming (VUP, 2001)[8]
- Merino Princess: Selected poems (VUP, 2004)[5]
- The Ponies (VUP, 2007)[5]
- The Lustre Jug (VUP, 2009)[5]
Awards and honours
- 1991 Writer in residence at the University of Canterbury[5]
- 1996 Burns Fellow at the University of Otago[5]
- 2004 Antarctica New Zealand Arts Fellowship[5]
- 2006 Writer's fellowship at Victoria University[5]
- 2015 Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement in Poetry[9]
References
- ^ a b Bernadette Hall biography at the IIML
- ^ Bernadette Hall Archived May 22, 2010, at the Wayback Machine biography at Victoria University Press
- ^ Book launch at Christchurch Arts Festival Archived May 25, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Bernadette Hall biography at the New Zealand Electronic Text Center
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Bernadette Hall biography at the New Zealand Book Council
- ^ New Zealand Post Book Awards Finalists 2010
- ^ a b Bernadette Hall bibliography at The NZ Literature File Archived June 5, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b c d e Bernadette Hall biography at the New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre.
- ^ "Previous winners". Creative New Zealand. Retrieved October 24, 2013.
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