Biography
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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Birthday1924-08-28
Deathday2004-01-29 (79 years old)
CitizenshipsNew Zealand
AwardsPrime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement (Fiction), honorary doctor of the University of Otago, honorary doctor of the University of Waikato, Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Robert Burns Fellowship, Order of New Zealand
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