Janet Frame

Janet Paterson Frame, ONZ, CBE ( born August 28, 1924 in Dunedin, New Zealand, † January 29, 2004 ibid ) was a New Zealand writer.

Life

She was born 1924 in New Zealand as the third of five children of a railway worker. In their family became more frequent tragic events. George, her brother, suffered from severe epilepsy, two of her sisters, Myrtle and Isabelle, were drowned. In itself falsely schizophrenia was diagnosed, which is why they, 1947-1954, in mental hospitals spent eight years, where she was " treated " with 200 painful electric shocks. The memories of that time they processed in 1961 in her novel "Faces in the Water" ( Faces in the Water).

She wrote eleven novels, such as " When owls shrine " ( Owls do cry ), a few short story collections, a poetry collection and her autobiography An Angel at My Table ( An Angel at my Table), which was filmed by Jane Campion 1990. In 2003, she was considered a contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature. On January 29, 2004, she died at the age of 79 from leukemia.

Works

• The new summer meet. from the English by Karin Noelle. C. H. Beck, München 2010, ISBN 978-3-406-60520-8.
• Faces in the water. from the English by Kyra Stromberg and Monika Slasher. Piper, Munich / Zurich 1994, ISBN 3-492-02821-7.
• An Angel at My Table. from the English by Lilian Faschinger. Piper, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-492-11602-7.
• On the Maniototo. from the English by Lilian Faschinger Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1987, ISBN 3-518-01929-5.
• On the edge of the alphabet. from the English by Ruth Malchow. Nannen, Hamburg 1963.
• The lagoon. from the English by Ruth Malchow. Nannen, Hamburg 1962.
• If owls shrine. from the English by Ruth Malchow. Nannen, Hamburg 1961. Reprint: Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-518-39910-1.
• New edition: revised by Karen Noelle. CH Beck Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-63001-9.