http://janetframe.org.nz
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 Janet Frame Literary Trust is registered as
a Charitable Organisation by the New Zealand Charities Commission, and has been
approved as a donee organisation.
Janet Frame's complete works are currently in
print in New Zealand from Random House New Zealand. They are available at all
good NZ bookstores and at NZ online booksellers.
Janet Frame is published in the English language
by Virago Press, Bloodaxe Books and Bloomsbury Books in the UK, by Counterpoint
Press and George Braziller in the USA, by Random House Australia and Wilkins
Farago in Australia, and by Random House NZ and Penguin NZ in New Zealand..
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.
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represented by an international literary agency: The Wylie Agency
Please contact the literary agency for enquiries about:
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Please note that the Janet Frame Estate maintains strict control over the copyright of unpublished manuscripts and letters by Janet Frame.
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Postal address
Janet Frame Literary Trust
Dunedin 9059
Janet Frame Estate Web Page:
http://janetframe.org.nz
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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.
Or so one thought.
(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)
& 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)
& I really love emailing, it's like writing a poem in the sky.
(From an email to Elizabeth Alley)
& 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)
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Writing
a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an
unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the
cathedrals of the imagination.
(The Envoy from Mirror City)
Caution
We do not recommend the Wikipedia article on
Janet Frame. It has a non-neutral bias. It gives unwarranted prominence to
fringe theories and it 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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