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  <name><![CDATA[Janet Frame]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[The fate befalling the young woman who wanted &quot;to be a poet&quot; has been well documented. Desperately unhappy because of family tragedies and finding herself trapped in the wrong vocation (as a schoolteacher) her only escape appeared to be in submission to society's judgement of her as abnormal. She spent four and a half years out of eight years, incarcerated in mental hospitals. The story of her almost miraculous survival of the horrors and brutalising treatment in unenlightened institutions has become well known. She continued to write throughout her troubled years, and her first book (The Lagoon and Other Stories) won a prestigious literary prize, thus convincing her doctors not to carry out a planned lobotomy.

She returned to society, but not the one which had labelled her a misfit. She sought the support and company of fellow writers and set out single-mindedly and courageously to achieve her goal of being a writer. She wrote her first novel (Owls Do Cry) while staying with her mentor Frank Sargeson, and then left New Zealand, not to return for seven years.
]]></about>    <gender>female</gender>  <hometown>Dunedin</hometown>  <born_at>08/28/1924</born_at>  <died_at>01/29/2004</died_at>  
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Owls Do Cry]]></title>
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  <published>1958</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Janet Frame: An Autobiography; Volume One : To the Is-Land, Volume Two : An Angel at My Table, Volume Three : The Envoy from Mirror City/ 3 Volumes]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Janet Frame]]></name>
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  <published>1991</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Faces in the Water]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Janet Frame]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.11</average_rating>
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  <published>1982</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[An Angel at My Table]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Janet Frame]]></name>
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  <published>1982</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Scented Gardens for the Blind]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Janet Frame]]></name>
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  <published>1980</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Towards Another Summer]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Janet Frame]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Edge of the Alphabet]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Janet Frame]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.03</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>30</ratings_count>
  <published>1991</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Yellow Flowers in the Antipodean Room]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Janet Frame]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.45</average_rating>
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  <published>1968</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[To the Is-land: An Autobiography]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Janet Frame]]></name>
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  <ratings_count>22</ratings_count>
  <published>1982</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Carpathians]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Janet Frame]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.52</average_rating>
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  <published>1988</published>  
  
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