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Kōrero: Fiction

Places where Janet Frame wrote her fiction

Dunedin The lagoon and other stories 1952
Auckland Owls do cry 1957
London Faces in the water 1961
London The edge of the alphabet 1962
London Scented gardens for the blind 1963
London The reservoir: stories and sketches 1963
London, Cornwall Snowman, snowman: fables and fantasies 1963
London, Waiheke Island, Dunedin The adaptable man 1965
Waiheke Island, Dunedin A state of siege 1966
London, Cornwall, Dunedin The reservoir and other stories 1966
Dunedin The rainbirds 1968
New York Mona Minim and the smell of the sun 1969
New York, Dunedin Intensive care 1970
New Hampshire, Dunedin, New York Daughter buffalo 1972
Auckland, California, Stratford Living in the Maniototo 1979
  You are now entering the human heart 1983*
Auckland, Levin The Carpathians 1998
Posthumous publications
London Towards another summer 2007
  Gorse is not people 2012*
France In the memorial room 2013
Ibiza The mijo tree 2013

Janet Frame was a frequent traveller overseas and many of her novels and short-story collections were wholly or partly written in foreign countries. Travel allowed Frame a kind of creative freedom and independence she struggled to find in New Zealand. This diagram shows where her novels and collections of short fiction were written. Frame worked on some books in various locations as she travelled to and fro. It is not known where she wrote You are now entering the human hearand Gorse is not people.

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Lydia Wevers, Fiction – Janet Frame, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/interactive/41940/places-where-janet-frame-wrote-her-fiction (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Lydia Wevers, i tāngia i te 20 June 2013, updated 1 August 2015.