NZSA Janet Frame Memorial Award

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The NZSA Janet Frame Memorial Award was an award for mid-career fiction or poetry writers. It was named after New Zealand writer Janet Frame, who died in 2004, and funded by a gift from the Janet Frame Literary Trust. It was awarded biennially from 2008 to 2016.

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The NZSA Janet Frame Memorial Award was an award for New Zealand writers of poetry and imaginative fiction.

Janet Frame was a member of the writers’ organisation that is now called the New Zealand Society of Authors, or NZSA (then named the NZ PEN Centre) and had been greatly helped by being awarded the Hubert Church Memorial Award in 1951 for her first book, The Lagoon and other stories. [1] This award was made possible by a bequest to the NZ PEN Centre from Hubert Church's widow in 1945. [2] [3] [4]

A few years after Janet Frame's death, in August 2007, the Janet Frame Literary Trust gave the NZSA a gift to fund an award in her name, to be given to an author of literary or imaginative fiction, or poetry. [2]

The award was first made in 2008 and the fifth and final award was made in 2016. It carried a monetary value of $3,000. [2]

List of winners by year

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References

  1. ↑ Evans, Patrick (2010). "Frame, Janet Paterson". Te Ara: the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  2. 1 2 3 "Awards | Grants | Fellowships |". NZSA The New Zealand Society of Authors (Pen NZ Inc) Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  3. ↑ Derby, Mark (9 August 2016). "Writing by Hubert Church". Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  4. ↑ "First Steps: Literary Awards". NZSA The New Zealand Society of Authors (Pen NZ Inc) Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  5. ↑ "Emma Neale receives the NZ Society of Authors' Janet Frame Award". Wellington City Libraries: Te Matapihi ki te Ao Nui. 12 December 2008. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  6. ↑ "NZSA Janet Frame Memorial Award for Literature". Creative NZ. 1 December 2010. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  7. ↑ McKinlay, Tom (20 December 2012). "Janet Frame award winner to work on new poetry". Otago Daily Times. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  8. ↑ Green, Paula (4 December 2014). "Congratulations to Elizabeth Smither – Winner of the NZSA Janet Frame Memorial Award for Literature 2014". NZ Poetry Shelf. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  9. ↑ Green, Paula (18 November 2016). "Poetry Shelf Congratulations: Janet Frame Memorial Award goes to Laurence Fearnley". NZ Poetry Shelf. Retrieved 2 February 2019.


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