janet frame an angel at my table the complete autobiography

Best Performance in Supporting Role: Martyn Sanderson.

New Zealand Film and TV Awards (1990):.

Karen Fergusson as Janet Frame (teenager).

The film follows Frame from when she grows up in a poor family, through her years in a mental institution, and into her writing years after her release. Originally produced as a television miniseries, the film, as with Frame's autobiographies, is divided into three sections, with the lead role played by three actresses who portray Frame at different stages of her life: Alexia Keogh (child), Karen Fergusson (teenager), and Kerry Fox (adult).

Synopsis Īn Angel at My Table is a dramatisation of the autobiographies of New Zealand author Janet Frame. It won awards at the New Zealand Film and Television awards, the Toronto International Film Festival, and second prize at the Venice Film Festival. The film is based on Janet Frame's three autobiographies, To the Is-Land (1982), An Angel at My Table (1984), and The Envoy from Mirror City (1984). This book contains selections from the long out-of-print collection entitled Janet Frame: An Autobiography (George Brazillier, 1991), which itself was originally published in three volumes: To the Is-land, An Angel at My Table, and The Envoy from Mirror City.An Angel at My Table is a 1990 biographical drama film directed by Jane Campion. From a childhood and adolescence spent in a poor but intellectually intense railway family, through life as a student, and years of incarceration in mental hospitals, eventually followed by her entry into the saving world of writers and the Mirror City that sustains them, we are given not only a record of the events of a life, but also the transformation of ordinary facts and ideas into a shining palace of mirrors.įrame's journey of self-discovery, from New Zealand to London, to Paris and Barcelona, and then home again, is a heartfelt and courageous account of a writer's beginnings as well as one woman's personal struggle to survive. New Zealand's preeminent writer Janet Frame brings the skill of an extraordinary novelist and poet to these vivid and haunting recollections, gathered here for the first time in a single volume.

Description The autobiography of New Zealand's most significant writer

Janet frame an angel at my table the complete autobiography