Janet Frame was a New Zealand author who published under the name Janet Frame. 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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