Janet Frame
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
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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 .
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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.
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When owls cry . Translated from the English by Ruth Malchow. Nannen, Hamburg 1961.
- New edition: Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-518-39910-1 .
- New edition: revised by Karen Nölle. CH Beck Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-63001-9 .
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
- Literature by and about Janet Frame in the catalog of the German National Library
- Janet Frame: Freefall author , Deutsche Welle
Individual evidence
- ^ A visit to Frank Sargeson
- ↑ Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellows ( Memento from October 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Honorary Members: Janet Frame. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed March 10, 2019 .
personal data | |
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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 |