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NEWSFLASH: Author Janet Frame Dies


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IMAGE: Janet Frame in her youth.

Renowned New Zealand author Janet Frame has dies aged 79 in Dunedin Hospital. Frame's life story was portrayed in the award winning Jane Campion film An Angel at My Table. The film was based in turn on her autobiography of the same name.

Frame learned in August last year that she was suffering from terminal cancer.


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IMAGE: Janet Frame more recently.

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