Editing Janet Frame (section)

{{Short description|New Zealand author (1924–2004)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2020}}
{{Use New Zealand English|date=August 2013}}
{{Infobox writer
| name        = Janet Frame
| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=NZL|ONZ|CBE|size=100%}}
| image       = Janet Frame 1993 (cropped).jpg
| caption     = Frame in 1993
| birth_name  = Janet Paterson Frame
| birth_date  = {{Birth date|1924|08|28|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Dunedin]], New Zealand
| death_date  = {{Death date and age|2004|01|29|1924|08|28|df=y}}
| death_place = Dunedin, New Zealand
| occupation  = [[Novelist]], [[short story writer]], [[essayist]], [[poet]]
| notableworks=  ''An Angel at My Table''
| genre       = [[Modernism]], [[magic realism]], [[postmodernism]]
| website     ={{URL|janetframe.org.nz}}
| footnotes   =
|language=English
}}

'''Janet Paterson Frame''' {{post-nominals|country=NZL|ONZ|CBE}} (28 August 1924 – 29 January 2004) was a New Zealand author. She is internationally renowned for her work, which includes novels, short stories, poetry, juvenile fiction, and an autobiography, and received numerous awards including being appointed to the [[Order of New Zealand]],<ref name = "DPMC">[http://www.dpmc.govt.nz/honours/lists/onz.html The Order of New Zealand] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080827165300/http://www.dpmc.govt.nz/honours/lists/onz.html |date=27 August 2008 }} Honours List</ref> New Zealand's highest civil honour.<ref name="Read NZ">{{cite web |title=Frame, Janet |url=https://www.read-nz.org/writer/frame-janet |website=Read NZ Te Pou Muramura |access-date=1 December 2020}}</ref><ref name="OCNZL">{{cite encyclopedia |last=Worthington |first=Kim |editor1-last=Robinson |editor1-first=Roger |editor2-last=Wattie |editor2-first=Nelson |encyclopedia=The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature |title=Frame, Janet |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195583489.001.0001/acref-9780195583489-e-418 |access-date=21 November 2020 |date=2006 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |isbn=978-0-1917-3519-6 |oclc=865265749 |doi=10.1093/acref/9780195583489.001.0001}}</ref>

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.<ref name=NYT>{{cite web|title= Janet Frame, 79, Writer Who Explored Madness|first= Douglas|last= Martin|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=980CE6DF1138F933A05752C0A9629C8B63|date= 30 January 2004|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=2007-11-17}}</ref> Many of her novels and short stories explore her childhood and psychiatric hospitalisation from a fictional perspective, and her award-winning three-volume autobiography was adapted into the film ''[[An Angel at My Table]]'' (1990), directed by [[Jane Campion]].<ref name="Read NZ" /><ref name="OCNZL" />