A writer who is sensitive enough to have unusual powers of perception may also be a writer who is debilitatingly sensitive to criticism. That seems to have been the case with New Zealand author Janet ...
On this month’s fiction podcast, Miranda July reads the New Zealand author Janet Frame’s short story “Prizes,” which was published in The New Yorker in 1962. July, whose fiction and essays have been ...
Janet Frame, who was widely considered New Zealand’s finest writer, has died. She was 79. The author of novels, short stories, essays and poetry, Frame died Thursday in Dunedin, New Zealand. She ...
Our fiction offering this week is “Gavin Highly,” by Janet Frame. Recently, Frame’s neice and literary executor, Pamela Gordon, exchanged e-mails with Deborah Treisman, the magazine’s fiction editor. ...
The late New Zealand literary master Janet Frame’s inimitable voice — poetic, acerbic, piercing — is as fresh now as a half-century ago, when her stories and novels were drawing international ...
The New Zealand author channelled her experience of tragedy and mental illness with dazzling results. Now centenary celebrations will ensure her extraordinary vision lives on In February 1975 the New ...
New Zealand author Janet Frame has revealed that she is terminally ill with cancer. She says she has acute myeloid leukaemia, a cancer of the blood and bone marrow. In an interview with New Zealand's ...
The New Zealand author, born 100 years ago, was both tormented and inspired by her experience of mental illness. By Ellen Peirson-Hagger In Janet Frame’s The Edge of the Alphabet,Zoe Bryce says, “I’m ...
THE RESERVOIR and SNOWMAN, SNOWMAN by Janet Frame. 364 pages. Braziller. $7.00. It is a fairly good rule of thumb to avoid books that come in cardboard slipcases, just as a practiced reader ...