Janet Paterson Frame Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Nene Janet Paterson Clutha Template:Post-nominals (28 August 1924 – 29 January 2004) better known by her pen name of Janet Frame, 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.
Writing is analgesic. I think it's all that matter to me. I dread emerging from it each day.
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Fact
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Was scheduled to have a lobotomy when her first volume of stories, The Lagoon, was published in 1952 - days before her operation. A nurse on staff successfuly challenged the operation despite Frame's own mother having approved it.
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She spent 7 years in a psychiatric institution where she underwent over 200 sessions of electro-convulsive therapy.
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She was educated at Waitaki Girl's High School then did her teacher's training at University of Otago.
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Her brother had epilepsy and became an alcoholic.
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Her father worked on the railways and her mother was a failed poet.
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In 1973 she legally changed her surname to Clutha, after the river south of Oamaru, New Zealand, where she grew up as child, but continued to write under the name Janet Frame.
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
An Angel at My Table
1990
autobiographical books "To the Is-Land", "An Angel at My Table" and "The Envoy from Mirror City"
$13 Million