Janet Frame

Janet Paterson Frame (August 28, 1924 - January 29, 2004) was a New Zealand writer.

Literary works

Novels (first publication)

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• Owls Do Cry, Pegasus Press, Christchurch, 1957.
• Faces in the Water, Pegasus Press, Christchurch, 1961.
• The Edge of the Alphabet, Pegasus Press, Christchurch, 1962.
• Scented Gardens for the Blind, Pegasus Press, Christchurch, 1963.
• The Adaptable Man, Pegasus Press, Christchurch, 1963.
• A State of Siege, Brazillier, New York, 1966.
• The Rainbirds, WH Allen, London, 1968.(Published in the US as Yellow Flowers in the Antipodean Room in 1969.)
• Intensive Care, Brazillier, New York, 1970.
• Daughter Buffalo, Brazillier, New York, 1972.
• Living in the Maniototo, Brazillier, New York 1979.
• The Carpathians, Brazillier, New York 1988.

Stories

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• "University Entrance" in New Zealand Listener, 22 March 1946.
• "Alison Hendry" in Landfall 2, June 1947. (reprinted in The Lagoon and Other Stories as "Jan Godfrey".)
• The Lagoon and Other Stories, Caxton Press, Christchurch, 1951 (1952).
• The Reservoir: Stories and Sketches, Brazillier, New York, 1963.
• Snowman Snowman: Fables and Fantasies, Brazillier, New York, 1963.
• The Reservoir and Other Stories, Pegasus Press, Christchurch, 1966.
• You Are Now Entering the Human Heart, Victoria University Press, Wellington, 1983.

Children's Stories

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• Mona Minim and the Smell of the Sun, Brazillier, New York 1969.

Poetry

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• The Pocket Mirror, Brazillier, New York 1967.
• "Three Poems by Janet Frame" in New Zealand Listener, 28 August-3 September 2004 Vol 195 No 3355. view online

Autobiography

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• To the Is-Land (Autobiography 1), Brazillier, New York, 1982.
• An Angel at My Table (Autobiography 2), Brazillier, New York, 1984.
• The Envoy From Mirror City (Autobiography 3), Hutchinson, Auckland, 1984.
• Janet Frame: An Autobiography (Autobiography 1-3), Century Hutchinson, Auckland, 1989.

Articles

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• "A Letter to Frank Sargeson" in Landfall 25, March 1953, p.5.
• "Review of Terence Journet's Take My Tip" in Landfall 32, December 1954, pp. 309-310.
• "Review of A Fable by William Faulkner" in Parson's Packet, no. 36, October-December 1955, pp. 12-13.
• "Memory and a Pocketful of Words" in Times Literary Supplement, 4 June 1964, pp. 12-13.
• "This Desirable Property" in New Zealand Listener, 3 July 1964, pp. 12-13.
• "Beginnings" in Landfall 73, March 1965, pp. 40-47.
• "The Burns Fellowship" in Landfall 87, September 1968, pp. 241-242.
• "Charles Brasch 1909-1973: Tributes and Memories from His Friends" in Islands 5, Spring 1973, pp. 251-253.
• "Janet Frame on Tales from Grimm" in Education, Early Reading Series, 24, 9, 1975, p. 27.
• "Departures and Returns" in G. Amirthanayagan (ed.) Writers in East-West Encounter, Macmillan, London, 1982.
• "A last Letter to Frank Sargeson" in Islands 33, July 1984, pp. 17-22.

A new volume of poetry is slated to appear sometime in 2005 under the guidance of her neice Pamela Gordon and the Janet Frame Literary Trust in accordance with Janet Frame's wishes.

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