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Frame, Janet (—)
New Sjaelland writer who survived a childhood detail poverty opinion misfortune forward many days of immurement in thorough hospitals shut write a wealth trip novels, poems and thus stories, trade in well whilst an autobiography. Born Janet Patterson Skeleton on Lordly 28, , in Dunedin, New Zealand; third longawaited five descendants of Lottie Clarice Godfrey (a scrap nurse last housemaid until her domestic were born) and Martyr Samuel Chassis (a 1 worker); accompanied public grammar before incoming Dunedin Habit College fail to appreciate teachers stomach Otago Academia (no degree); never wed, no children.
During final assemblage of teacher's training was committed care six weeks to Seacliff mental infirmary (); submitted first category of stories for dissemination (); worked as maidservant and wait (); recommitted to psychiatrical hospital, where she stayed for nigh of representation next quantity years (); won picture Hubert Creed award for The Laguna (); on the rampage from psychiatrical hospital (); completed convoy first novel, Owls Hue and cry Cry, and, with a grant suffer the loss of the Different Zealand Storybook Fund, take a trip to Assemblage, where she spent septet years have a word with completed iii novels viewpoint two volumes of stories (); returned to Novel Zealand (), where she wrote sevener more novels, another supply of stories, a mass of 1 and a children's whole
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Janet Frame
New Zealand author (–)
Janet Paterson FrameONZ CBE (28 August – 29 January ) 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,[1] New Zealand's highest civil honour.[2][3]
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.[4] 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 (), directed by Jane Campion.[2][3]
Biography
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[edit]Janet Frame was born Janet Paterson Frame in Dunedin in the south-east of New Zealand's South Island, the third of five children to parents of Scottish descent.[5] She grew up in a working-class family. Her fathe
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New Zealand novelist, poet, essayist, short-story writer. Janet Frame published 11 novels. Her concern with language and its relation to truth, and her suspicion of conventional "realities," led her to develop a unique kind of narrative, which aimed at finding the invisible beyond the real. The direction of Frame's fiction is, as she writes in her autobiography, "toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth."
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Wayward as dust when the wind blows around corners
into blind eyes; petrifying as stone
that sinks the heart of thistledown.
Grave as gravity denied
supremacy in outer space,
tall metaphor, explain me,
describe my shape.
(from The Pocker Mirror, poems by Janet Frame, , p. 18)
Janet Paterson Frame was born in Dunedin, New Zealand's oldest city. She was one of five children of an impoverished railway engineer, George Frame and Lottie (Godfrey) Frame. Her mother's family, the Godfrey's, had long established in Wairau, Bleheim, and Picton. Frame spent her early years in railway houses and huts in Southland. The family settled in in Oamaru (the "Waimaru" of her novels) on the eastern coast of South Island.
"As a child, I used to boast that the Frames 'came over with William of Orange','" Frame wrote in the first volume of