Photograph appears on the NZ Museums website.
The typewriter was donated to the museum by Janet Frame, and is the very machine on which she wrote all three volumes of her autobiography.
Monday, February 8, 2010
Friday, January 29, 2010
Writers' Walk, The Octagon, Dunedin
A plaque honouring Janet Frame lies next to the statue of Robert Burns in the upper Octagon.
NZ ONSCREEN Janet Frame Collection
NZ ONSCREEN has prepared a comprehensive memorial tribute to Janet Frame that went live on their web site today, timed to commemorate the sixth anniversary of Janet Frame's death.
Among the rare resources on offer, you can view the entire Vincent Ward film adaptation of Janet Frame's novel A State of Siege. This particular item will only be available for a short time so I recommend you make the most of it! Vincent Ward's prizewinning short film (50 minutes) is a brilliant interpretation of the original story, a work of art in itself.
There are also two interviews with Janet Frame herself, one when she was about 50 years old, and in the other briefer one she was aged in her late 70s.
And there's an intelligent and upbeat essay by Roger Horrocks on the topic of the filmic adaptations of Janet Frame's literary works.
There's also a documentary about Janet Frame's friend and one-time mentor the New Zealand writer Frank Sargeson who provided shelter for her while she wrote her first novel.
Monday, January 25, 2010
Janet Frame on Charity
"I do believe and I hope I carry out the belief that civilised, constructive acts should never finish - that if one is done to me I must continue it by trying to help someone else. Whether this is an attempt to be unselfish or to salve my conscience I don't know."
(Letter to Charles Brasch, 9 August 1969)
The above is among the many insights to be found in a tribute volume Janet Frame's executors have compiled in order to commemorate the centenary of Charles Brasch.
The text is drawn mostly from the letters between Janet and Charles, but also quotes from their poems written for each other, and from autobiography and journal entries and other letters.
Charles Brasch was a poet, editor, patron and philanthropist, and was a close friend of Janet Frame's.
Available soon, in a fine edition, from Holloway Press:
Dear Charles, Dear Janet: Frame & Brasch in Correspondence
Edited by Pamela Gordon & Denis Harold
Holloway Press (2010)
New York Times Review noticed in NZ
New Zealand novelist and blogger Mary McCallum recently noticed the brilliant NY Times review from last May, of the US edition of Towards Another Summer.
Here's Mary's post on the subject, on her blog O Audacious Book.
Thanks for raising the topic Mary!
Here's Mary's post on the subject, on her blog O Audacious Book.
Thanks for raising the topic Mary!
'New' story reaches New Zealand
Another 'new' short story by Janet Frame had its first New Zealand publication recently. 'Dot' appeared in the Sunday Star-Times on Sunday the 10th of January 2010. It was accompanied by a beautifully suitable illustration by Pam Templeton.
'Dot' was first published in the USA in A Public Space Issue Number 7 (which has since sold out).
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