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  • Published: 31 October 2011
  • ISBN: 9781742532349
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 264

Janet Frame in Her Own Words



A new collection of non-fiction writings which reveal new insights into the life and work of internationally acclaimed New Zealand author, Janet Frame

'It is the desire really to make myself a first person.
For many years I was a third person – as children are, 'they', 'she',
and as probably oppressed minorities become, 'they'.
- Janet Frame, radio interview about writing her autobiography (1983)
 
For the first time ever, this collection brings together Janet Frame's published short non-fiction in one collected volume, as well as material never seen before. Letters spanning 50 years of Frame's life are published alongside essays, reviews, speeches and extracts from interviews. This startling collection provides an unprecedented range of factual writings about herself, her life and her work. It reveals many aspects Janet Frame's character that will challenge some long-standing myths and preconceptions about New Zealand's most famous author.

  • Published: 31 October 2011
  • ISBN: 9781742532349
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 264

About the author

Janet Frame

Janet Paterson Frame (1924-2004) is New Zealand's most internationally acclaimed and distinguished author. She received numerous awards, prizes, grants, fellowships and scholarships in New Zealand and abroad, including honorary doctorates from the universities of Otago and Waikato. In 1983 she was awarded a CBE for services to literature, and in 1990 was made a Member of the Order of New Zealand, the country's highest civil honour.

In her lifetime Janet Frame published eleven novels, four collections of short stories, a book of poetry, a children's book and three volumes of autobiography. Another novel, a book of poetry, a compilation of selected stories and a non-fiction collection have since been published posthumously and future publications containing new and previously uncollected material are planned.

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