Frame, Janet Paterson

Frame, Janet Paterson
▪ 2005
Janet Paterson Frame Clutha 
      New Zealand writer (b. Aug. 28, 1924, Dunedin, N.Z.—d. Jan. 29, 2004, Dunedin), created a unique body of work that presents perhaps the most recognized voice of New Zealand outside her native country. Although her early life was marked by poverty, illness, and the horrific deaths by drowning of two sisters, she developed an acute appreciation of language and literature. Intensely shy, Frame had a difficult adolescence and early adulthood, and she entered a psychiatric hospital in 1947. During the following eight years, she voraciously read literary classics. She was subject to frequent electroshock therapy and—but for a discovery that she had won a literary prize for The Lagoon (1951), her first book of stories—might have undergone a lobotomy (which severs the nerve fibres to the front of the brain). When she was released to the care of the writer Frank Sargeson, she struggled to readjust to life outside the hospital and to continue writing. Owls Do Cry (1957), her first novel, was followed by a number of other novels, including Faces in the Water (1961), The Edge of the Alphabet (1962), and Scented Gardens for the Blind (1963), in which she examined meaning in the lives of those on the margins of society from the perspective of one who knew. In addition to a volume of poetry, a children's book, and several more novels and collections of stories, Frame wrote three volumes of autobiography, To the Is-Land (1982), An Angel at My Table (1984), and The Envoy from Mirror City (1985), all of which were tapped for the widely popular movie of her life, An Angel at My Table (1990), by New Zealand director Jane Campion. In 1990 Frame was made a Member of the Order of New Zealand, the country's highest civil honour. In 2003 she received one of the inaugural Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement, along with poet Hone Tuwhare and historian Michael King (q.v. (King, Michael )).

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  • Frame, Janet — in full Janet Paterson Frame Clutha born Aug. 28, 1924, Dunedin, N.Z. New Zealand novelist, short story writer, and poet. After an impoverished childhood, she trained as a teacher. Her first book was the story collection The Lagoon (1951).… …   Universalium

  • Frame, Janet — p. ext. Janet Paterson Frame Clutha (n. 28 ago. 1924, Dunedin, Nueva Zelanda). Novelista, poetisa y cuentista neozelandesa. Luego de pasar una infancia en la pobreza, se formó como maestra. Su primer libro fue la colección de relatos The Lagoon… …   Enciclopedia Universal

  • Janet Frame — Infobox Writer name = Janet Frame bgcolour = silver caption = birth date = birth date|1924|8|28|mf=y birth place = Dunedin, New Zealand death date = Death date and age|2004|1|29|1924|8|28 death place = Dunedin, New Zealand occupation = Novelist,… …   Wikipedia

  • Janet Frame — (Dunedin, 28 août 1924 29 janvier 2004) est une écrivaine néo zélandaise. Biographie Janet Paterson Frame est née à Dunedin (Nouvelle Zélande) le 28 août 1924. Issue d’une famille ouvrière de cinq enfants, elle se passionne très tôt pour la… …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Janet Frame — Janet Frame, completo Janet Paterson Frame Clutha (28 de agosto de 1924, Dunedin 29 de enero de 2004) fue una novelista, escritora de cuentos y poeta neozelandesa. Trayectoria Su familia fue humilde (su padre era ferroviario y su madre, enfermera …   Wikipedia Español

  • Janet Frame — Janet Paterson Frame, ONZ, CBE (* 28. August 1924 in Dunedin; † 29. Januar 2004 ebenda) war eine neuseeländische Schriftstellerin. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Leben 2 Werke 3 Literatur …   Deutsch Wikipedia

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  • Frame — /freɪm/ (say fraym) noun Janet Paterson, 1924–2004, NZ writer; noted for novels such as Faces in the Water (1961) and her autobiography of which the second volume is An Angel at my Table (1984) …  

  • literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …   Universalium

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