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Janet Frame
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New Zealand author (1924–2004)
OverviewAI-generated
Janet Paterson Frame was a New Zealand novelist, essayist, poet, and writer. Born in Dunedin on 28 August 1924, she was educated at the University of Otago. Her literary output included works such as *The Lagoon*, *The Adaptable Man*, and *The Complete Autobiography*. She wrote in English and was associated with the genres of modernism and magic realism, as well as the postmodernism movement.
Frame received the Order of New Zealand and was a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. She was influenced by William Styron, William Faulkner, and Virginia Woolf. Her archives are held at the Hocken Collections. She died in Dunedin on 29 January 2004 from leukemia, which was a natural cause.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 28 August 1924
- Died
- 29 January 2004
- Works
- 48
Top works
- Huesos de jilguero
- The complete autobiography
- The Lagoon
- Le messager
- The adaptable man
via Open Library + Wikidata
Key facts
- Born
- Janet Paterson Frame , ( 1924-08-28 ) 28 August 1924, Dunedin , New Zealand
- Died
- 29 January 2004 (2004-01-29) (aged 79), Dunedin, New Zealand
- Occupation
- Novelist , short story writer , essayist , poet
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Modernism , magic realism , postmodernism
- Notable works
- An Angel at My Table
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Janet
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- New Zealand
- Place of birth
- Dunedin
- Place of death
- Dunedin
- Occupation
- short story writer
- Educated at
- University of Otago
- Employer
- Yaddo
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- essay
- Hair colour
- red hair
- Genre
- magic realism
- Movement
- Postmodernism
- Official website
- janetframe.org.nz
- Image
- Janet Frame 1993 (cropped).jpg
Show 9 more facts
- cause of death
- leukemia
- date of birth
- 1924-08-28
- date of death
- 2004-01-29
- manner of death
- natural causes
- archives at
- Hocken Collections
- influenced by
- Virginia Woolf
- name in native language
- Janet Paterson Frame
- Commons category
- Janet Frame
- medical condition
- schizophrenia
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Encyclopedic overview
Janet Paterson Frame (28 August 1924 – 29 January 2004) was a New Zealand author. She is internationally renowned for her work, which includes novels, short stories, poetry, juvenile fiction, and an autobiography, and received numerous awards including being appointed to the Order of New Zealand, New Zealand's highest civil honour.
Frame's celebrity derived from her dramatic personal history as well as her literary career. Following years of psychiatric hospitalisation, Frame was scheduled for a lobotomy that was cancelled when, just days before the procedure, her debut publication of short stories was unexpectedly awarded a national literary prize. Many of her novels and short stories explore her childhood and psychiatric hospitalisation from a fictional perspective, and her award-winning three-volume autobiography was adapted into the film An Angel at My Table (1990), directed by Jane Campion.
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