Angel at My Table - Softcover

Frame, Janet

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0704346931 ISBN 13: 9780704346932

Publisher: Womens Pr Ltd, 2001

Synopsis

This autobiography traces Janet Frame's childhood in a poor but intellectually intense family, life as a student, years of incarceration in mental hospitals and eventual entry into the saving world of writers.

About this title

About the Author

Janet Frame was born in Dunedin in 1924. She was the author of eleven novels, five collections of stories, a volume of poetry and a children's book. She was a Burns Scholar and a Sargeson Fellow and won the New Zealand Scholarship in Letters and the Hubert Church Award for Prose. She was made a CBE in 1983 for services to literature, awarded an honorary doctorate of literature from Otago University in 1978, and one from Waikato University in 1992. She received New Zealand's highest civil honour in 1990 when she was made a Member of the Order of New Zealand. Janet Frame died in January 2004.

Edition details

• Publisher: Womens Pr Ltd
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0704346931
• ISBN 13: 9780704346932
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 434