Official Web Site of the Janet Frame
Literary Trust
The Janet Frame Literary Trust is a charitable trust that was founded by Janet Frame in 1999. When she died in 2004 she bequeathed her copyright to the Trust and directed that the ongoing royalties and other income from her literary estate be used to give financial grants to New Zealand writers of poetry and imaginative fiction.
Janet Frame Literary Award recipients are
selected by an Advisory Panel. Applications are not invited.
The New Zealand Tax Department has approved the
Janet Frame Literary Trust as a donee organisation.
New editions of Janet Frame's work are available
at all good NZ bookstores and at their NZ online booksellers.
Key Responsibilities
The Janet Frame Literary Trust owns Janet Frame's copyright, oversees publishing and permissions, and administers the Janet Frame Literary Awards. All major decisions concerning Janet Frame's rights and legacy are made by the Board of Trustees. The Trustees of the Janet Frame Literary Trust are represented on a day to day basis by the literary executor appointed by Janet Frame herself, her niece and close friend Pamela Gordon. (The administrator who looks after a major literary estate is often referred to as a 'literary executor' - also known as a 'keeper of the flame'. This role also involves a more personal aspect of caring for the late author's reputation and where necessary correcting misinformation.)
Rights Enquiries
Janet Frame's literary estate is
represented by an international literary agency, The Wylie Agency
Please contact the literary agency for enquiries about:
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Reproducing any of Janet Frame's written work
Film and theatre adaptation
Public or radio performance
The right to set Janet Frame work to music
Inclusion of Janet Frame quotes in any art work
Foreign translation rights
Contact Information for Janet Frame's Estate
E-mail link
Click here to send an email
Postal address
Janet Frame Literary Trust
Janet Frame Estate Web page
http://janetframe.org.nz
Literary Executor's Blog
http://slightlyframous.blogspot.com/
Janet Frame - Selected Quotations
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They think I'm going to be a schoolteacher
but I'm going to be a poet.
(Childhood diary entry, quoted in To The Is-Land)
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I like to see life with its teeth out.
(Letter to John Money, 6 May 1947)
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I have discovered that my freedom is
within me, and nothing can destroy it.
(Letter to John Money, 3 October 1948, on being committed to Seacliff Hospital)
& Life is hell but at least there are prizes.
(From the short story 'Prizes' in The Reservoir: Stories and Sketches)
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The general opinion in New Zealand then
was that natural teeth were best removed anyway, it was a kind of colonial
squandering, like the needless uprooting of forests.
(An Angel at My Table)
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"For your own good" is a persuasive argument that will
eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.
(Faces in the Water)
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There is no past, present or future.
Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.
(Faces in the Water)
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The Southern Cross cuts through my heart
instead of through the sky.
(Towards Another Summer, written 1963, published 2007)
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A writer must stand on the rock of her self and her judgment or be swept away
by the tide or sink in the quaking earth: there must be an inviolate place
where the choices and decisions, however imperfect, are the writer’s own, where
the decision must be as individual and solitary as birth or death. (The Envoy from Mirror City)
& Dying is an adventure, and I've always
enjoyed adventures.
(Janet Frame to palliative care doctor, quoted in Sunday Star-Times interview with Anthony Hubbard, December 2003)
Cautions
(1) Please note that the site janetframe.co.nz is not an
official Janet Frame site and is not authorised or approved of by the Janet
Frame Estate.
(2) We do not recommend the Wikipedia article on Janet
Frame. It gives unwarranted prominence to fringe theories and quotes unreliable
sources. (Please note that Wikipedia does contain an important and oft
overlooked disclaimer to the effect that no information on the do-it-yourself
amateur encyclopedia can be guaranteed to be reliable.)
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