Late last year the first major selection of Janet Frame's poetry was published in French translation in the prestigious journal La Revue de Belles-Lettres.
Twelve poems ('Douze Poèmes') were translated by Paol Keineg and presented opposite their English language original as a bilingual display.
The Janet Frame section of the journal also included two short stories translated by Sylvie Doizelet and an introduction by David André.
Here's a review of the volume (it's in French) which says something like:
"Janet Frame infuses her work with melancholy but also with rebellion and scathing irony."
Fair comment, I think.
Pictured: 'L'Endroit', Paol Keineg's translation of Janet Frame's poem 'The Place'.
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