biography
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Frame, Janet Paterson
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| female
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| lived:
| (1924– )
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| biography:
| Novelist and short-story writer, born in Dunedin, New Zealand. She studied at Otago University, and trained as a teacher. Her first book was a collection of short stories, The Lagoon: Stories (1952), which she followed five years later with a novel, Owls Do Cry. Her novels reflect the time she spent in psychiatric hospitals after severe mental breakdowns. Honoured in her homeland, but only belatedly receiving international recognition, key books are Scented Gardens for the Blind (1963), A State of Siege (1966), Intensive Care (1970), Living in the Maniototo (1979), and The Carpathians (1988). Between 1983 and 1985 she published a three-volume autobiography which was later filmed as An Angel at my Table. |
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