Bernadette Hall
{{short description|New Zealand playwright and poet}}
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Bernadette Hall {{Post-nominals|country=NZL|MNZM}} (born 1945) is a New Zealand playwright and poet.
Biography
Hall was born in 1945 in Alexandra, New Zealand. She was raised in what she describes as "a small-city Catholic community that was proud, theatrical and pretty much enclosed." After a career as a teacher of Latin and classical studies, she started writing full-time in her forties.[http://www.victoria.ac.nz/vup/authorinfo/bhall.aspx Bernadette Hall] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100522050329/http://www.victoria.ac.nz/vup/authorinfo/bhall.aspx |date=22 May 2010 }} biography at Victoria University Press She has held residencies at both Canterbury University and Victoria University[http://www.artsfestival.co.nz/show/76/book-launch-bernadette-hall-the-lustre-jug.aspx Book launch at Christchurch Arts Festival ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100525115909/http://www.artsfestival.co.nz/show/76/book-launch-bernadette-hall-the-lustre-jug.aspx |date=25 May 2010 }} and is widely published.[http://www.victoria.ac.nz/modernletters/bnzp/2001/hallnote.html Bernadette Hall biography at the IIML][http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/name-202034.html Bernadette Hall] biography at the New Zealand Electronic Text Center She spent 10 years as the editor of Takahe magazine and five as the poetry editor of The Press, Christchurch's main daily newspaper.
Hall's poetry collection The Lustre Jug was a finalist in the 2010 New Zealand Post Book Awards.[http://www.booksellers.co.nz/awards/new-zealand-post-book-awards/finalists-2010 New Zealand Post Book Awards Finalists 2010]
She is the patron of Hagley Writers' Institute.{{Cite web|url=https://hagleywriters.net/staff/|title=Hagley Writers' Institute » Staff|website=hagleywriters.net|access-date=2019-06-08}}
Works
= Plays =
- Glad and the Angels (1992)[http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/hallbernadette.html Bernadette Hall] biography at the New Zealand Book Council
- The Clothesline (1993)[http://www.nzlf.auckland.ac.nz/author/?a_id=63 Bernadette Hall bibliography at The NZ Literature File] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100605025129/http://www.nzlf.auckland.ac.nz/author/?a_id=63 |date=5 June 2010 }}
- The Girl Who Sings Waterfalls (1992)
= Poetry collections =
- Heartwood (Caxton Press, Christchurch, 1989)[http://www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/authors/hall/ Bernadette Hall] biography at the New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre.
- of Elephants etc. (Untold Press, 1990)
- The Persistent Levitator (Victoria University Press, 1994)
- Still Talking (Victoria University Press, 1997)
- Settler Dreaming (Victoria University Press, 2001)
- The Merino Princess: Selected Poems (Victoria University Press, 2004)
- The Ponies (Victoria University Press, 2007)
- The Lustre Jug (Victoria University Press, 2009)
- Life & Customs (Victoria University Press, 2014)
Awards and honours
- 1991 – Writer in residence at the University of Canterbury
- 1996 – Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago
- 2004 – Antarctica New Zealand Arts Fellowship
- 2006 – Writer's fellowship at Victoria University
- 2015 – Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement in Poetry{{cite web |url=http://www.creativenz.govt.nz/en/results-of-our-work/award-winners/prime-minister-s-awards-for-literary-achievement |title=Previous winners |publisher=Creative New Zealand |author= |date= |accessdate=24 October 2013}}
- 2017 – Appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to literature, in the 2017 New Year Honours{{cite web | url=https://www.dpmc.govt.nz/publications/new-year-honours-list-2017 | title=New Year honours list 2017 |date=31 December 2016 | publisher=Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet | accessdate=15 June 2019}}
References
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Category:20th-century New Zealand dramatists and playwrights
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Category:International Writing Program alumni
Category:Members of the New Zealand Order of Merit
Category:21st-century New Zealand poets
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