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Janet Frame

(Janet Patterson Frame)
New Zealand (1924 - 2004)

About Janet Frame

Janet Frame has won all the major New Zealand literary awards and in 1989 was awarded the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. Her three volumes of autobiography were the subject of an award-winning film, An Angel at My Table, directed by Jane Campion.

New and Forthcoming Paperbacks

Towards Another Summer

Novels

Owls Do Cry (1957)
Faces in the Water (1961)
The Edge of the Alphabet (1962)
Scented Gardens for the Blind (1963)
The Adaptable Man (1965)
A State of Siege (1966)
The Rainbirds (1968)
aka Yellow Flowers in the Antipodean Room
Mona Minim and the Smell of the Sun (1969) (with Robin Jacques)
Intensive Care (1970)
Daughter Buffalo (1972)
Living in the Maniototo (1979)
The Carpathians (1988)
Towards Another Summer (2008)

Collections

The Lagoon: And Other Stories (1951)
The Reservoir: Stories and Sketches (1963)
Snowman, Snowman: Fables and Fantasies (1963)
The Pocket Mirror (poems) (1967)
You Are Now Entering the Human Heart (1984)
Storms Will Tell: Selected Poems (2008)
The Goose Bath (2008)

Non fiction

To the Is-Land (1982)
An Autobiography (1984)
An Angel At My Table: The complete autobiography (1984)
The Envoy from Mirror City (1985)

Anthologies containing stories by Janet Frame

The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women (1995)

Short stories

Two Sheep (1983)

Janet Frame recommends

All Visitors Ashore (1984)
C K Stead
"A masterpiece."

Portrait of the Artist's Wife (1992)
Barbara Anderson
"Acutely observed, furiously gleeful, compulsively readable... the work of a natural writer."

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