Janet Frame

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Nene Janet Paterson Clutha , better known by her pseudonym Janet Frame (born August 28, 1924 in Dunedin , New Zealand ; † January 29, 2004 there ) was a New Zealand writer.

Life

She was born in New Zealand in 1924, the third of five children to a railroad worker. Tragic events accumulated in her family. George, her brother, had severe epilepsy and two of her sisters, Myrtle and Isabelle, drowned. She herself was wrongly diagnosed with schizophrenia , which is why she spent eight years, from 1947 to 1954, in mental hospitals, where she was "treated" with 200 excruciating electric shocks . She processed the memories of this time in 1961 in her novel “ Faces in the Water”.

After her release, she lived for a few years (1955-1958) in a primitive hut on the property of her friend, writer Frank Sargeson , where she wrote her first novel "Wenn Eulen schrein" (Owls do cry) . She also received support from The Frank Sargeson Trust , which he founded and which awards scholarships to talented young New Zealand authors.

She wrote a total of eleven novels, several short story collections, a poetry collection and her autobiography An Angel at my Table, which was made into a film by Jane Campion in 1990. In 2003 she was considered a candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature . She died of leukemia on January 29, 2004 at the age of 79 .

Works

  • Towards the new summer . Translated from the English by Karin Nölle. CH Beck, Munich 2010,
    ISBN 978-3-406-60520-8 .
  • Faces in the water . Translated from the English by Kyra Stromberg and Monika Schlitzer. Piper, Munich / Zurich 1994, ISBN 3-492-02821-7 .
  • An angel on my board . Translated from the English by Lilian Faschinger. Piper, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-492-11602-7 .
  • On the Maniototo . Translated from the English by Lilian Faschinger Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1987,
    ISBN 3-518-01929-5 .
  • On the edge of the alphabet . Translated from the English by Ruth Malchow. Nannen, Hamburg 1963.
  • The lagoon . Translated from the English by Ruth Malchow. Nannen, Hamburg 1962.
  • When owls cry . Translated from the English by Ruth Malchow. Nannen, Hamburg 1961.

honors and awards

Janet Frame has received numerous literary prizes and other awards.

  • 1951: Hubert Church Prose Award ( The Lagoon and other Stories )
  • 1956: New Zealand Literary Fund Grant
  • 1958: New Zealand Literary Fund Award for Achievement ( Owls Do Cry )
  • 1964: Hubert Church Prose Award ( Scented Gardens for the Blind ); New Zealand Literary Fund Scholarship in Letters.
  • 1965: Robert Burns Fellowship, University of Otago, Dunedin, NZ
  • 1967: Buckland Literary Award ( The Reservoir and Other Stories / A State of Siege )
  • 1969: New Zealand Literary Fund Award ( The Pocket Mirror: Poems )
  • 1971: Buckland Literary Award (Intensive Care); Hubert Church Prose Award. ( Intensive Care )
  • 1972: President of Honor: PEN International New Zealand Center, Wellington, NZ
  • 1973: James Wattie Book of the Year Award ( Daughter Buffallo )
  • 1974: Hubert Church Prose Award ( Daughter Buffallo ); Winn-Manson Menton Fellowship.
  • 1978: Honorary Doctor of Literature (D.Litt. Honoris Causa) University of Otago, Dunedin, NZ
  • 1979: Buckland Literary Award ( Living in the Maniototo )
  • 1980: New Zealand Book Award for Fiction ( Living in the Maniototo )
  • 1983: Buckland Literary Award; Sir James Wattie Book of the Year Award ( To the Is-Land ); CBE (Commander, Order of the British Empire)
  • 1984: Frank Sargeson Fellowship, University of Auckland, NZ
  • 1984: New Zealand Book Award for Non-Fiction (An Angel at My Table); Sir James Wattie Book of the Year Award ( An Angel at My Table ); Turnovsky Prize for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts
  • 1985: Sir James Wattie Book of the Year Award ( The Envoy from Mirror City )
  • 1986: New Zealand Book Award for Non-Fiction ( The Envoy from Mirror City ); Foreign Honorary Member: American Academy of Arts and Letters
  • 1989: Ansett New Zealand Book Award for Fiction; Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book ( The Carpathians )
  • 1990: ONZ (Member, Order of New Zealand)
  • 1992: Honorary Doctor of Literature (D.Litt), University of Waikato, Hamilton, NZ
  • 1994: Massey University Medal, Massey University, Palmerston North, NZ
  • 2003: Arts Foundation of New Zealand Icon Artists; New Zealand Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement
  • 2007: Montana Book Award for Poetry ( The Goose Bath )

literature

  • Michael King : Wrestling with the Angel: A Life of Janet Frame. New Zealand 2000
  • Maria Wikse: Materializations of a woman writer . Lang, Oxford et al. 2006, ISBN 3-03910-705-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A visit to Frank Sargeson
  2. ↑ Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellows ( Memento from October 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Honorary Members: Janet Frame. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed March 10, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Frame, Janet
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frame, Janet Paterson (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION New Zealand writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Dunedin
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 2004
Place of death Dunedin