Janet Paterson Frame ONZ CBE was a New Zealand author. She was internationally renowned for her work, which included novels, short stories, poetry, juvenile fiction, and an autobiography. Her award-winning three-volume autobiography was adapted into the film An Angel at My Table, directed by Jane Campion.
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Janet Paterson Frame ONZ CBE was a New Zealand author. She was internationally renowned for her work, which included novels, short stories, poetry, juvenile fiction, and an autobiography. She received numerous awards including being appointed to the Order of New Zealand, New Zealand’s highest civil honour. Many of her novels and short stories explore her childhood and psychiatric hospitalisation from a fictional perspective. Her award-winning three-volume autobiography was adapted into the film An Angel at My Table, directed by Jane Campion. Frame’s celebrity derived from her dramatic personal history as well as her literary career. Following years of psychiatric hospitalisations, 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. In May 1958 she legally changed her name to Nene Janet Paterson Clutha, in part to make herself more difficult to locate and recognise. In September 1958 she admitted herself to the Maudsley River River Hospital in London. In an effort to alleviate the effects of her schizophrenia, Frame began regular therapy sessions with American-trained psychiatrist Alan Miller, who studied under John Johns Hopkins University.
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