Janet Frame
Janet Paterson Frame ONZ CBE (28 August 1924 – 29 January 2004) was a New Zealand author. She wrote novels, short stories, poetry, juvenile fiction, and an autobiography. Frame's celebrity derived from her dramatic personal history as well as her literary career. Following years of psychiatric hospitalisation, Frame was scheduled for a lobotomy that was cancelled when, just days before the procedure, her debut publication of short stories was unexpectedly awarded a national literary prize.
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| Full name at birth | Janet Paterson Frame
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| Date of birth | 28 August 1924
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| Place of birth | Dunedin, New Zealand
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| Date of death | 29 January 2004
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Janet Frame is known for her role in the film An Angel at My Table (1990) as (based on the autobiographies of).
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