Janet Frame
Janet Paterson Frame ONZ CBE (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.
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| Born | Janet Paterson Frame 28 August 1924 Dunedin, New Zealand |
| Died | 29 January 2004 (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 |
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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.