“Writing
a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an
unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the
cathedrals of the imagination.” – Janet Frame
Born this day in 1924, Nene Janet
Paterson Clutha, better known by her pen name Janet Frame, had a
personal story that rivaled anything she created in fiction.
A New Zealander, she wrote novels,
short stories, poetry, juvenile fiction, and an autobiography, but her biggest
celebrity came from her dramatic personal history. Hospitalized for years in a psychiatric
facility, she wrote whenever she could and just days before a planned lobotomy,
her debut publication of short stories – written during one of her “release”
times – was unexpectedly awarded her nation’s top literary prize.
“That,” she said in perhaps the
understatement of the century, “changed everything.”
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Her story began at 18 when she
attempted suicide after leaving an abusive family atmosphere. In-and-out of psychiatric hospitals for the
next 8 years, primarily suffering from anxiety and depression, she was falsely diagnosed
with schizophrenia and after being treated with both medications and electric
shock therapy, she began a long-delayed writing effort, producing a number of
short stories that she submitted to a publisher.
Seeming to be spiraling deeper into
depression (actually caused by the treatments), she agreed to the lobotomy but
then pulled away from it when her short story collection soared. With its success and the prize money, she
moved to Europe, ultimately had the schizophrenia diagnosis debunked and lived
to age 79 before dying of cancer. In
between, she was one of the most prolific and rewarded authors in history,
writing two dozen novels, many nonfiction works, hundreds of short stories and
poems, countless essays and a 3-volume autobiography that became the film An Angel At My Table.
“As a teen, people thought I might
be a teacher,” she said. “I wanted to be
a poet.”
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