New Zealand's first female medical graduate, Dr Emily Hancock Siedeberg, delivered Frame at St. Her father, George Frame, worked for the New Zealand Government Railways, and her mother Lottie (née Godfrey), served as a housemaid to the family of writer Katherine Mansfield. Janet Frame was born Janet Paterson Frame at Dunedin in the south-east of New Zealand's South Island, the third of five children to parents of Scottish descent.

Oamaru: Clock tower on the old Post Office, described in Frame's Owls Do Cry and her autobiography, The Envoy from Mirror City 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. 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. įrame's celebrity derived from her dramatic personal history as well as her literary career.

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, New Zealand's highest civil honour. Janet Paterson Frame ONZ CBE (28 August 1924 – 29 January 2004) was a New Zealand author. Novelist, short story writer, essayist, poet

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