Janet Frame

Nene Janet Paterson Clutha (28 August 1924– 29 January 2004) was a New Zealand author who published under the name Janet Frame. She wrote novels, short stories, poetry, juvenile fiction, and an autobiography. Frame's celebrity derived from her dramatic personal history as well as her literary career. Quotes What use the green river, the gold place, if time anddeath pinned human in the pocket of my land not restfrom taking underground the green all-willowed andwhite rose and bean flower and morning-mist picnic ofsong in pepper-pot breast of thrush? Owls Do Cry, pt, 1, chap. 4, 1961 From the first place of liquid darkness, within the secondplace of air and light, I set down the following recordwith its mixture of fact and truths and memories of truthsand its direction always toward the Third Place, wherethe starting point is myth. To the Is-land, chap. 1, ‘‘In the Second Place’’, 1982 The word permanent... had its own kind of revenge onthose who misused it, for the Bible said that nothing waspermanent and everything came and went. To the Is-land, chap. 2, ‘‘In the Second Place’’, 1982 External links Category:1924 births Category:2004 deaths Category:Poets from New Zealand Category:Novelists from New Zealand Category:Short story writers Category:Essayists Category:Young adult authors Category:Autobiographers Category:Women from New Zealand Category:Women born in the 1920s