Janet Frame, whose vividly romantic explorations of madness and language in novels, poetry and autobiography propelled her to worldwide attention, died Thursday in Dunedin, New Zealand. She was 79.

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, whose vividly romantic explorations of madness and language in novels, poetry and autobiography propelled her to worldwide attention, died Thursday in Dunedin, New Zealand. She was 79.

Janet Frame, 79, a New Zealand author who chronicled her early struggles with mental illness -- including a close escape from a frontal lobotomy -- in a series of acclaimed books, died Jan. 29 at a ...

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 ...

New Zealand author Janet Frame, hailed for work described as a mighty exploration of human consciousness after years blighted by a misdiagnosis of mental illness, died on Thursday after a battle with ...

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 Janet Frame Literary Trust has allocated $15,000 to the New Zealand Society of Authors (formerly known as PEN NZ). Before she died in 2004, Janet Frame directed that the ongoing income from her ...

The Janet Frame House has been open to the public for 10 years, prompting the Janet Frame Eden Street Trust to celebrate in style. Janet Frame (1924-2004) is widely regarded as one of New Zealand's ...

Janet Frame’s estate is delighted to announce the 2023 Janet Frame Literary Trust Award for Poetry. The prize, worth $7000, will be presented to poet essa may ranapiri to commemorate Janet Frame’s ...

New Zealand novelist Janet Frame, who died last week, aged 79, was a survivor. Literally so. Born in Dunedin, she recalls in the first of three memoirs, To The Is-Land (1982), that she ''had a twin, ...

“THIS book...is a work of fiction. None of the characters, including Istina Movet, portrays a living person.” The disclaimer to Janet Frame's second novel, “Faces in the Water”, published in 1961, ...