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JANET FRAME (1924-2004) was a celebrated New Zealand author of novels, short stories, poetry and the three-volume autobiography An Angel at My Table that was adapted for cinema by Jane Campion. Janet Frame won numerous local and international literary prizes including the Commonwealth Prize for Best Book and was often rumoured to be a contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Janet Paterson Frame, est fille d'ouvriers (son père est cheminot) et a 4 frères et soeurs. Passionnée de littérature et de poésie,son talent d'écrivain se manifeste très tôt. Elle écrit et publie des poèmes dans une revue hebdomadaire pour enfants dés l'âge de 10 ans.Sa famille la pousse néanmoins à devenir institutrice car le métier d'écrivain n'est pas considéré dans ce ...
Early years. Janet Frame was born on 28 August 1924 at St Helen’s Hospital, Dunedin, to Lottie Clarice Godfrey (who had worked as a maid in the Picton home of Katherine Mansfield’s family, the Beauchamps), and her husband George Samuel Frame, a railway fireman. After their marriage in Wellington in 1916, their first three children, Myrtle Jean, George and Janet Paterson, were born in Dunedin.
Janet Frame. Comenzó a escribir en el hospital mental, fruto de sus lecturas de los clásicos. Con su primer libro de cuentos, El lago y otros relatos (1952), obtuvo el premio Hubert Church de prosa y se libró además de una intervención de psicocirugía. El influyente autor neozelandés Frank Sargeson dio su completo apoyo a la ya escritora ...
Janet Frame Nació en Dunedin (Nueva Zelanda) en 1924. Su juventud estuvo amenazada por la sombra de la locura: ingresada en diversos hospitales psiquiátricos, se le diagnosticó erróneamente esquizofrenia; cuando estaban a punto de realizarle una lobotomía le concedieron el prestigioso premio literario Hubert Church Memorial Award, gracias a lo cual se anuló la operación.
JANET FRAME 28 August 1924 - 29 January 2004. Janet Frame was born in Dunedin New Zealand in 1924 into a working class family. She was raised with a love of words, of literature and of nature, and her writing talent was recognised at an early age. However writing, especially for a woman, was not regarded as a 'real job'.
Janet Frame falleció en Dunedin, Nueva Zelanda, el 29 de enero de 2004. Obras Prosa 1951 The Lagoon and Other Stories 1957 Owls Do Cry 1961 Faces in the Water 1962 The Edge of the Alphabet 1963 Scented Gardens for the Blind 1963 The Reservoir: Stories and Sketches/Snowman Snowman: Fables and Fantasies 1965 The Adaptable Man 1966 A State of Siege
