Janet Frame

New Zealand author Janet Frame wrote novels, short stories, poetry, juvenile fiction and an autobiography, and much of her fiction draws on her own years of psychiatric hospitalisation. Her three-volume autobiography was adapted into the film An Angel at My Table (1990), directed by Jane Campion. Her novels include Faces in the Water, set inside a mental institution, and Owls Do Cry. Frame was born in Dunedin, raised in Oamaru, and died in 2004.