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A Birthday Gift from Janet Frame's estate to the Janet Frame House trust:
On the anniversary of Janet Frame's birth in 1924, the charitable trust founded by the author has awarded $10,000 towards the completion of a new visitor centre at the Janet Frame House in Ōamaru.
The trustees of the Janet Frame Literary Trust are delighted to announce that the Janet Frame Prize for 2026, worth $10,000, goes to Wellington poet Hinemoana Baker (Ngāti Tupaia ki Te Aro, Ngāti Raukawa ki te Tonga, Ngāti Toa Rangatira, Te Āti Awa, Kāi Tahu, Germany, England)
Wonderful news, Kelly Ana Morey's magnum opus to be released on the first anniversary of her death. She called it "the first bougie Maori novel". ❤️🖤
Translator Giovanna Scocchera is working on a revamp of Frame's Italian texts and reminisces on her recent research trip to New Zealand
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The 2025 recipient of the Janet Frame Prize is acclaimed Ōtepoti Dunedin novelist and poet Emma Neale, who will receive a gift of $10,000 from an endowment fund that Janet Frame established in 1999 to support and encourage her fellow New Zealand authors.
Pamela Gordon retweeted
38. A State of Siege by Janet Frame. My literary revelation of the year, putting me in the mind of Woolf and Lispector. A capacious and captivating prose that immerses you in the head of the lonely Malfred Signal trying to escape the siege of contemporary existence.
RIP to Maurice Gee, one of the greats of New Zealand Literature. And deepest sympathy to his whanau and friends. Maurice is pictured here along with many of his contemporaries, including Janet Frame, at the 1998 Burns Fellow Reunion, University of Otago, Dunedin. 📸 Reg Graham
Pamela Gordon retweeted
My essay on the visionary, affecting and extraordinarily funny work of Janet Frame. Focused on the novels and short stories she wrote while she lived in Camberwell in the early '60s, when she was freed of her ‘schizophrenic fancy dress’.
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A new review of Janet Frame's THE EDGE OF THE ALPHABET @Fitzcarraldo @LRB
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Pamela Gordon retweeted
Brilliant, brilliant Banksy
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This is not a Banksy piece. Historically the artist posts his work on his Instagram page. It does not appear there.
The real artist’s name, Loretta, is clearly visible at left.
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Pamela Gordon retweeted
After being misdiagnosed and institutionalized for years, the writer Janet Frame published three novels that “deep-sea dive into her experience, the years of institutionalization, of forcible detachment from the social world,” Audrey Wollen writes. nyer.cm/1Yl1RuR
RIP Marianne Faithfull, here pictured with her son Nicholas, at home in Aldworth, Berkshire, in 1971.
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Note Janet Frame's OWLS DO CRY on the bookshelf 🦉 📖 ❤️
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"no luggage but memory and a pocketful of words"
Janet Paterson Frame, born 28 August 1924, died 29 January 2004.
It's the 21st anniversary today... 🌹 thanks for everything you gave the world, Janet ❤️
📷 Jerry Bauer
Pamela Gordon retweeted
9/23 Godspeed Top Flat chick!
With the early morning winds, wings eager to go,
Top Flat chick fledged.
Wishing him a safe journey as he navigates his way across the South Pacific Ocean.
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Top Flat chick then and now. Image credit: Sharyn Broni
