Prizes

The Hubert Church Award for the best Prose by a New Zealander:

the prize that saved Janet Frame from a lobotomy
when it was given to her sixty years ago.

Prizes, Awards, Honours and Fellowships earned by Janet Frame
for her short stories, poetry, novels and non-fiction
( a selected list only)

1952 Hubert Church Award (The Lagoon and Other Stories)

1958 NZ Literary Fund Award for Achievement (Owls Do Cry)

1963 Hubert Church Award (Scented Gardens for the Blind)

1964 NZ Literary Fund Scholarship in Letters

1965 Robert Burns Fellow, University of Otago

1967,1969 Residencies at Yaddo Artists' Community, New York

1969 MacDowell Fellow, MacDowell Colony, New Hampshire

1969 NZ Literary Fund Award for Achievement (The Pocket Mirror)

1970,1971 Residencies at Yaddo Artists' Community, New York

1971 NZ Government Annuity for Services to NZ Literature

1973 Hubert Church Award, James Wattie Award (Daughter Buffalo)

1974 Katherine Mansfield Fellow, Menton

1978 Honorary Doctorate of Literature, University of Otago

1980 NZ Book Award for Fiction (Living in the Maniototo)

1982 Residency at Yaddo Artists' Community

1983 Wattie Book of the Year (To the Is-Land)

1983 Commander of the British Empire (C.B.E)

1984 NZ Book Award for Non-fiction (An Angel at My Table)

1984 Turnovsky Prize for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts

1985 Wattie Book of the Year (The Envoy from Mirror City)

1986 Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts And Letters

1987 Inaugural Frank Sargeson  Fellow, University of Auckland

1989 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book (The Carpathians)

1990 Member of the Order of New Zealand

1992 Honorary Doctorate of Literature, University of Waikato

1993 Premi Brancati Prize, Italy

1994 Massey University Medal

1996 Gabriela Mistral Medal, Chile

2003 Arts Foundation of New Zealand Icon Artist

2003 Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement. 

2007 Montana NZ Book Award for Poetry (The Goose Bath)