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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, [1] New Zealand's highest civil honour.
An Angel at My Table is a dramatisation of the autobiographies of New Zealand author Janet Frame.Originally produced as a television miniseries, the film, as with Frame's autobiographies, is divided into three sections, with the lead role played by three actresses who portray Frame at different stages of her life: Alexia Keogh (child), Karen Fergusson (teenager), and Kerry Fox (adult).
Janet Frame: An Autobiography: 1989 Eva Hoffman: Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language: 1989 William Styron: Darkness Visible: 1990 Laurie Lee: A Moment of War: 1991 Brian Keenan: An Evil Calling: 1991 Dalai Lama: Freedom in Exile: 1991 M. F. K. Fisher: Long Ago in France: The Years in Dijon: 1991 Reinaldo Arenas: Before Night Falls ...
Janet Frame, writer. Frame described some of her experiences in Sunnyside Hospital in her autobiography An Angel at My Table , and her novel Faces in the Water . [Mrs R. said it would] be a good idea for me to admit myself as a voluntary boarder to Sunnyside Mental Hospital where there was a new electric treatment , which, in her opinion, would ...
She then studied at Dunedin Teachers' Training College where she met and befriended Janet Frame. [5] The two became lifelong friends; in fact Natusch was the first person to read Frame's manuscript for Owls Do Cry. [5] Later she studied at the University of Otago, graduating Bachelor of Arts in 1948 and Master of Arts with second-class honours ...
The title of New Zealand author Janet Frame's fourth novel was Scented Gardens for the Blind (1963). [5] In 1994 the album was re-released as a CD. It was re-packaged by the Spanish record company Esterlla Rockera as a double CD (with first album Universal Radio) in 2005 (Catalogue Number: ER 42117). In June 2023 the album was rereleased on ...
The NZSA Janet Frame Memorial Award was an award for New Zealand writers of poetry and imaginative fiction. Janet Frame was a member of the writers’ organisation that is now called the New Zealand Society of Authors, or NZSA (then named the NZ PEN Centre) and had been greatly helped by being awarded the Hubert Church Memorial Award in 1951 for her first book, The Lagoon and other stories. [1]
Kerry Lauren Fox [1] (born 30 July 1966) is a New Zealand actress. [2] She came to prominence playing author Janet Frame in the movie An Angel at My Table directed by Jane Campion, [2] which gained her a Best Actress Award from the New Zealand Film and Television Awards.