Who is janet frame?

Janet Frame

Janet Paterson Frame, ONZ, CBE (28 August 1924 – 29 January 2004) was a New Zealand author. She wrote eleven novels, four collections of short stories, a book of poetry, an edition of juvenile fiction, and three volumes of autobiography during her lifetime. Since her death, a twelfth novel, a second volume of poetry, and a handful of short stories have been released. Frame's celebrity is informed by her dramatic personal history as well as her literary career. Following years of psychiatric hospitalisation, Frame was scheduled for a lobotomy that was canceled when, just days before the procedure, her debut publication of short stories was unexpectedly awarded a national literary prize. These dramatic personal experiences feature prominently in Frame's autobiographical trilogy and director Jane Campion's popular film adaptation of the texts, with recognisably autobiographical elements further resurfacing in many of her fictional publications. Characterised by scholar Simone Oettli as a writer who simultaneously sought fame and anonymity, Frame eschewed the dominant New Zealand literary realism of the post-war era, combining prose, poetry, and modernist elements with a magical realist style, garnering numerous local literary prizes despite mixed critical and public reception.

Read more about Janet Frame.

Some articles on janet frame:

An Angel At My Table - Cast
... Kerry Fox as Janet Frame Alexia Keogh as Janet Frame (adolescent) Karen Fergusson as Janet Frame (child) Iris Churn as Mother Jessie Mune as Baby Janet Kevin J ...
List Of Autobiographies - By Name
... Thing Happened On the Way To the Future 2010 Paula Fox Borrowed Finery 2001 Janet Frame To the Is-land 1982 Janet Frame An Angel at My Table and The Envoy From Mirror City ...

Famous quotes containing the words janet frame and/or frame:

    “For your own good” is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.
    Janet Frame (b. 1924)

    In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars.
    Edmund Burke (1729–1797)