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EXPLAINED: Janet frame - The Real Truth

Low expectations and thwarted desires: Geoff Dyer’s memoir of a working-class childhood

As a child, the writer Geoff Dyer made regular Friday visits to the house where his father was raised and where his father’s sister, Auntie Joan, still lived. While his parents talked with Joan, Geoff slipped upstairs. The landing’s ageing wallpaper was “brown or gloomy yellow”. Here stood a glass…

The Conversation

The Edge of the Alphabet by Janet Frame review – strikingly imagined voyage into delusion

Three characters each caught in their own mental turmoil sail from New Zealand to postwar England in this 1962 novel, reissued to mark Frame’s centenary

The Guardian - UK

From poverty, psychiatric hospital and writing in a shed to literary stardom: Janet Frame at 100

The New Zealand author channelled her experience of tragedy and mental illness with dazzling results. Now centenary celebrations will ensure her extraordinary vision lives on

The Guardian - UK

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A New Zealand politician can’t name a homegrown novel but Kiwi artists have always conquered the world

ACT arts spokesperson Todd Stephenson’s inability to name a New Zealand author for 20 minutes in an interview has rightfully raised eyebrows

The Guardian - AU

Short story: Petra, by Pip Robertson

"I found a note from him under my door saying he had a girlfriend now and to please not say anything"

Newsroom.co.nz

NZ writer in New Yorker

Another accolade for NZ's most internationally recognised poet

Newsroom.co.nz

All hail the book of the year

Jane Stafford on the novel that won the 2023 Ockham fiction prize on Wednesday night

Newsroom.co.nz

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Death in Takapuna

Intimations of mortality at a shack on the North Shore.

Newsroom.co.nz

Heather Rose writes with raw beauty about trauma and 'hardcore spiritual work' – so why does it leave me cold?

I have to begin my review of acclaimed novelist Heather Rose’s first foray into non-fiction with an admission: I am a deeply unspiritual person. I find “spiritual journey” narratives, generally speaking, solipsistic and tedious: I even grew impatient reading Herman Hesse’s Siddhartha.

The Conversation

Book of the Week: Kevin, by Karl

CK Stead on his younger friend

Newsroom.co.nz

Your house, your museum

On the strangeness of New Zealand's house museums

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