Janet Paterson Frame, ONZ, CBE (28 August 1924 - 29 January 2004) was a New Zealand writer. She published eleven novels in her lifetime, together with four collections of short stories, a book of poetry, an edition of juvenile fiction, and three volumes of autobiography. Since her death, a twelfth novel, a second volume of poetry, and a handful of previously unpublished short stories have been posthumously released.
Janet Frame, known for her dra...
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Janet Paterson Frame, ONZ, CBE (28 August 1924 - 29 January 2004) was a New Zealand writer. She published eleven novels in her lifetime, together with four collections of short stories, a book of poetry, an edition of juvenile fiction, and three volumes of autobiography. Since her death, a twelfth novel, a second volume of poetry, and a handful of previously unpublished short stories have been posthumously released.
Janet Frame, known for her dramatic personal history as well as her writing, narrowly escaped a lobotomy when her first book was awarded a national literary prize in New Zealand. Partly as a result of her traumatic personal experiences, some of which would eventually feature in her work, Frame's personal history has spawned a range of biographical myths. Described by scholar Simone Oettli as a writer who wanted simultaneous fame and anonymity, Frame eschewed the dominant New Zealand literary realism of the post-war era, combining prose, poetry, and modernist elements with...
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