Novels

• Owls Do Cry (Christchurch: Pegasus, 1957; New York: Braziller, 1960; London: W.H. Allen, 1961).
• Faces in the Water (Christchurch: Pegasus, 1961; New York: Braziller, 1961; London: W.H. Allen, 1962).
• The Edge of the Alphabet (Christchurch: Pegasus, 1962; New York: Braziller, 1962; London: W.H. Allen, 1962).
• Scented Gardens for the Blind (Christchurch: Pegasus, 1963; London: W.H. Allen, 1963; New York: Braziller, 1964).
• The Adaptable Man (Christchurch: Pegasus, 1965; New York: Braziller, 1965; London: W.H. Allen, 1965).
• A State of Siege (New York: Braziller, 1966; Christchurch: Pegasus, 1967; London: W.H. Allen, 1967).
• The Rainbirds (London: W.H. Allen, 1968; Christchurch: Pegasus, 1969). Published in the USA as Yellow Flowers in the Antipodean Room (New York: Braziller, 1969).
• Intensive Care (New York: Braziller, 1970; Toronto: Doubleday, 1970; Wellington: Reed, 1971; London: W.H. Allen, 1971).
• Daughter Buffalo (New York: Braziller, 1972; Toronto: Doubleday, 1972; Wellington: Reed, 1973; London: W.H. Allen, 1973).
• Living in the Maniototo (New York: Braziller, 1979; Auckland: Hutchinson, 1981; London: The Women’s Press, 1981).
• The Carpathians (Auckland: Century Hutchinson, 1988; London: Bloomsbury, 1988; New York: Braziller, 1989).
• Towards Another Summer (Auckland: Vintage, 2007).
• In the Memorial Room (Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2013; Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, 2013).

 

 

Novella

• The Mijo Tree, with illustrations by Deirdre Copeland (Auckland: Penguin, 2013).

 

 

Autobiography

• To the Is-Land: An Autobiography (New York: Braziller, 1982; London: The Women’s Press, 1982; Auckland: Hutchinson, 1984).
• An Angel at My Table: An Autobiography, Volume 2 (Auckland: Hutchinson, 1984; New York: Braziller, 1984; London: The Women’s Press, 1984).
• The Envoy from Mirror City: An Autobiography, Volume 3 (Auckland: Hutchinson, 1985; New York: Braziller, 1985; London: The Women’s Press, 1985).
• Janet Frame: An Autobiography (Auckland: Century Hutchinson, 1989; New York: Braziller, 1990).

 

Collections of Short Stories

• The Lagoon: Stories (Christchurch: Caxton, 1951); later published as The Lagoon and Other Stories, with illustrations by Karin van Roosmalen (Christchurch: Caxton, 1961).
• The Reservoir: Stories and Sketches (New York: Braziller, 1963).
• Snowman, Snowman: Fables and Fantasies (New York: Braziller, 1963).
• The Reservoir and Other Stories (Christchurch: Pegasus, 1966; London: W.H. Allen, 1966).
• You Are Now Entering the Human Heart (Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1983; London: The Women’s Press, 1984).
• Prizes: Selected Short Stories, with a Foreword by Pamela Gordon and an Introduction by Ian Richards (Auckland: Vintage, 2009). Published in the UK as The Daylight and the Dust: Selected Short Stories, with an Introduction by Michèle Roberts (London: Virago, 2009).
• Gorse Is Not People: New and Uncollected Stories, with a Preface by Pamela Gordon and Denis Harold (Rosedale, NZ: Penguin Books, 2012). Published in the USA as Between My Father and the King: New and Uncollected Stories (Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, 2012).

 

• ‘University Entrance’, NZ Listener, 22 March 1946, pp. 18-19. Posthumously collected in Gorse Is Not People: New and Uncollected Stories, pp. 59-63.
• ‘Alison Hendry’, Landfall 1 (1947), pp. 116-20. Subsequently collected as ‘Jan Godfrey’ in The Lagoon: Stories, pp. 94-101, and in The Lagoon and Other Stories, pp. 91-97.
• ‘Lolly-Legs’, NZ Listener, 15 October 1954, p. 8. Posthumously collected in Prizes: Selected Short Stories, pp. 245-51.
• ‘I Got A Shoes’, NZ Listener, 2 November 1956, pp. 26-27; 31. Posthumously collected in Gorse Is Not People: New and Uncollected Stories, pp. 80-87.
• ‘Face Downwards in the Grass’, Mate 1 (1957), pp. 7-12. Posthumously collected in Prizes: Selected Short Stories, pp. 252-58.
• ‘The Wind Brother’, School Journal, 51.1 (1957), part 3, pp. 57-67. Posthumously collected in Gorse Is Not People: New and Uncollected Stories, pp. 114-22.
• ‘The Friday Night World’, School Journal, 52.1 (1958), Part 3, pp. 59-67. Posthumously collected in Gorse Is Not People: New and Uncollected Stories, pp. 123-32.
• ‘Prizes’, New Yorker, 10 March 1962, pp. 44-46. Subsequently collected in The Reservoir: Stories and Sketches, pp. 19-26; in The Reservoir and Other Stories, pp. 90-97; and posthumously collected in Prizes: Selected Short Stories, pp. 115-22.
• ‘The Red-Currant Bush, the Black Currant-Bush, the Gooseberry Bush, the African Thorn Hedge, and the Garden Gate Who Was Once the Head of an Iron Bedstead’, Mademoiselle, April 1962, pp. 131; 183-86. Subsequently collected in Snowman, Snowman: Fables and Fantasies, pp. 137-51.
• ‘The Reservoir’, New Yorker, 12 January 1963, pp. 31-36. Subsequently collected in The Reservoir: Stories and Sketches, pp. 1-17, in The Reservoir and Other Stories, pp. 73-89, and in You Are Now Entering the Human Heart, pp. 127-39.
• ‘The Chosen Image’, Vogue (British edition), July 1963, pp. 60-61; 85. Subsequently collected in The Reservoir: Stories and Sketches, pp. 121-26; and in You Are Now Entering the Human Heart, pp. 173-77.
• ‘The Bath’, Landfall 19 (1965), pp. 225-30. Subsequently collected in You Are Now Entering the Human Heart, pp. 180-87.
• ‘A Boy’s Will’, Landfall 20 (1966), pp. 314-23. Posthumously collected in Prizes: Selected Short Stories, pp. 259-73.
• ‘In Alco Hall’, Harper’s Bazaar, November 1966, pp. 166-67; 225; 228. Posthumously collected in Gorse Is Not People: New and Uncollected Stories, pp. 47-58.
• ‘You Are Now Entering the Human Heart’, New Yorker, 29 March 1969, pp. 134; 137-38. Subsequently collected in You Are Now Entering the Human Heart, pp. 193-97.
• ‘The Birds of the Air’, Harper’s Bazaar, June 1969, pp. 102-05. Posthumously collected in Gorse Is Not People: New and Uncollected Stories, pp. 33-46.
• ‘Winter Garden’, New Yorker, 31 January 1970, pp. 37-39. Reprinted in Cornhill Magazine 178 (1970-71), pp. 11-15, and subsequently collected in You Are Now Entering the Human Heart, pp. 188-92.
• ‘They Never Looked Back’, NZ Listener, 23 March 1974, pp. 28-29. Posthumously collected in Prizes: Selected Short Stories, pp. 274-82.
• ‘The Painter’, NZ Listener, 6 September 1975, p. 20. Posthumously collected in Gorse Is Not People: New and Uncollected Stories, pp. 223-26.
• ‘Insulation’, NZ Listener, 17 March 1979, pp. 22-23. Subsequently collected in You Are Now Entering the Human Heart, pp. 198-203.
• ‘Two Widowers’, NZ Listener, 9 June 1979, pp. 24-25. Posthumously collected in Prizes: Selected Short Stories, pp. 283-89.

 

Juvenile Fiction

• Mona Minim and the Smell of the Sun, with illustrations by Robin Jacques (New York: Braziller, 1969).

 

Poetry

• The Pocket Mirror: Poems (New York: Braziller, 1967; London: W.H. Allen, 1967; Christchurch: Pegasus, 1968).
• The Goose Bath: Poems, ed. by Pamela Gordon, Denis Harold and Bill Manhire; with a Foreword by Pamela Gordon and an Introduction by Bill Manhire (Auckland: Vintage, 2006).
• Storms Will Tell: Selected Poems, ed. by Pamela Gordon, Denis Harold and Bill Manhire; with a Foreword by Pamela Gordon and an Introduction by Bill Manhire (Hexham: Bloodaxe Books, 2008).

 

Correspondence

• Dear Charles Dear Janet: Frame and Brasch in Correspondence, selected and ed. (with an Afterword) by Pamela Gordon and Denis Harold (Auckland: The Holloway Press, 2010).
• Jay to Bee: Janet Frame’s Letters to William Theophilus Brown, ed. (with an Introduction) by Denis Harold (Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, 2016).

 

Miscellaneous Books

• Janet Frame: In Her Own Words, selected and ed. by Denis Harold and Pamela Gordon (Rosedale, NZ: Penguin, 2011).

 

Anthologies

• The Janet Frame Reader, ed. by Carole Ferrier (London: The Women’s Press, 1995).

 

Articles & Essays

• ‘A Letter to Frank Sargeson’, Landfall 7 (1953), p. 5.
• Review of Take My Tip, by Terence Journet, Landfall 8 (1954), pp. 309-10; subsequently collected in Janet Frame: In Her Own Words, pp. 25-26.
• ‘Choked with Characters’, review of A Fable, by William Faulkner, Parsons Packet, October-December 1955; subsequently collected in Janet Frame: In Her Own Words, pp. 27-29.
• Reply to Letter of W. H. Oliver, NZ Listener, 23 August 1957, p. 11.
• ‘Memory and a Pocketful of Words’, Times Literary Supplement, 4 June 1964, p. 487; subsequently collected in Janet Frame: In Her Own Words, pp. 30-35.
• ‘This Desirable Property’, Listener [NZ], 3 July 1964, pp. 12-13; subsequently collected in Janet Frame: In Her Own Words, pp. 36-41.
• ‘Beginnings’, Landfall 19 (1965): pp. 40-47. Reprinted in Cornhill Magazine 175 (1966-67), pp. 189-97. Also published as ‘Janet Frame’ in Beginnings: New Zealand Writers Tell How They Began Writing, ed. by Robin Dudding (Wellington: Oxford University Press, 1980), pp. 26-34; and subsequently collected in Janet Frame: In Her Own Words, pp. 42-50.
• ‘The Burns Fellowship’, Landfall 22 (1968), pp. 241-42; subsequently collected in Janet Frame: In Her Own Words, pp. 51-52.
• ‘Charles Brasch 1909-73: Tributes and Memories from His Friends’, Islands 2 (old series; 1973), pp. 251-53; subsequently collected in Janet Frame: In Her Own Words, pp. 53-54.
• ‘Early Reading: Janet Frame on Tales from Grimm’, Education 24.9 (1975), p. 27; subsequently collected in Janet Frame: In Her Own Words, pp. 55-56.
• ‘Departures and Returns’, in Writers in East-West Encounter: New Cultural Bearings, ed. by Guy Amirthanayagam (London: Macmillan, 1982), pp. 85-94; subsequently collected in Janet Frame: In Her Own Words, pp. 57-66.
• ‘A Last Letter to Frank Sargeson’, Islands 1 (new series; July 1984), pp. 17-22; subsequently collected in Janet Frame: In Her Own Words, pp. 67-73.
• ‘A Great Many Good Writers’, Insight: American Express New Zealand Journal, June 1985; subsequently collected in Janet Frame: In Her Own Words, pp. 74-75.

 

Interviews

• ‘Out of New Zealand’, with Geoffrey Moorhouse, Manchester Guardian, 16 November 1962.
• ‘Janet Frame Star Writer in Glossy Magazine’, with Gwen Robyns, Evening Star, 6 December 1962.
• ‘Noted NZ Writer Is “Inspired by People”’, New Zealand Herald, 22 October 1963, p. 1 (section 2).
• ‘Noted Author on Visit to Oamaru’, Oamaru Mail, 1 November 1963. •’Well-Known Writer Returns to Oamaru’, Otago Daily Times, 2 November 1963.
• ‘Janet Frame – World Literary Figure: Looking Forward to Listening to Our “Silence”’, with Leah Newick, NZ Woman’s Weekly, 18 November 1963.
• ‘1965 Burns Fellow Is Janet Frame’, Critic [University of Otago, Dunedin], 19 March 1965, p. 6.
• ‘The Author Speaks’, with John Barkham, Saturday Review [Newport, US], 22 March 1969.
• ‘Artists’ Retreats’, with Claire Henderson, Listener [NZ], 27 July 1970, p. 13.
• ‘Janet Frame: It’s Time for France’, with Jill McCracken, Listener [NZ], 27 October 1973, pp. 20-21.
• ‘North Shore Notables: Janet Frame – Writer’, North Shore Gazette [Auckland, NZ], 22 January, 1975.
• ‘Three New Zealanders: Janet Frame’, with Michael Noonan, Endeavour Films [NZ Television], filmed February 1975, screened 1977.
• ‘Top Author Settles in Taranaki’, Daily News, 12 November 1976.
• With Hazel de Berg, National Library of Australia, 14 December 1977; oral recording; transcribed and posthumously collected in Janet Frame: In Her Own Words, pp. 99-105.
• ‘Silence and Solitude Are the Keys to Janet Frame’s World’, with Yvonne Dasler, Wanganui Chronicle, 5 July 1980, p. 7.
• ‘Visionary View of the “Tapestry of Words”’, with Tony Reid, NZ Herald, 12 February 1983.
• ‘Janet Frame: Joy in a World of Word’, with Frances Levy, New Zealand Woman’s Weekly, 21 March 1983, pp. 20-21.
• “Secret” Life in Suburbs’, with John Francis, Time Out [Wanganui Newspapers Weekender], 15 April 1983.
• ‘My Say’, with Elizabeth Alley, Radio New Zealand, 27 April 1983. Transcribed in parts and posthumously collected in Janet Frame: In Her Own Words, pp. 114-18.
• ‘Alone on a River of Words’, with Rosemary Vincent, New Zealand Times, 2 October 1983, p. 9.
• ‘She Lived an Eight-Year Nightmare – And Janet Frame’s Poetry Was the Key to Her Escape’, with Alice Steinbach, The Sun [Baltimore, US], 18 October 1984.
• With Larry Scanlan, The Whig-Standard Magazine [Toronto, Canada], 27 October 1984.
• “Freeze Frame”, with Cynthia Kee, Harpers and Queen, March 1985, pp. 196-97.
• ‘Books & Writing’, with Gina Mercer, ABC Radio, Australia, November 1985; partially transcribed and posthumously collected in Janet Frame: In Her Own Words, pp. 128-30.
• ‘Janet’s Pen Triumphs over a Scalpel’, with Stephanie Dowrick, Sydney Morning Herald, 23 November 1985, p. 45.
• ‘Janet Frame in Reality Mode’, with Marion McLeod, NZ Listener, 24 September 1988, pp. 24-26. Also published as ‘Frame of Mind’, Sydney Morning Herald, 26 November 1988 (late weekend edition), pp. 38-39; 41-42; 44.
• ‘Traces of Honey’, with Elizabeth Alley, Radio New Zealand, 19 October 1988. Transcribed in parts, together with excerpts from Frame’s preparatory notes, and posthumously collected in Janet Frame: In Her Own Words, pp. 137-44.
• ‘New Zealand’s Obvious Nobel Prize Candidate’, with Ingmar Björkstén, Svenska Dagbladet [Sweden], 2 August 1989.
• ‘Life of a Writer Frame by Frame’, with Russell Baillie, Sunday Star [Auckland, NZ], 14 October 1990.
• ‘An Honest Record: An Interview with Janet Frame’, by Elizabeth Alley, Landfall 178, Vol. 45 (June 1991), pp. 154-68. A combined transcript, with slight alterations, of the two radio interviews conducted by Elizabeth Alley in 1983 and 1988.
• ‘The Final Word’, with Susan Chenery, The Australian Magazine, 6-7 August 1994, pp. 30; 33-34.
• ‘Janet Frame Biography’, with Elizabeth Alley, Radio New Zealand, 3 August 2000. Transcribed in parts and posthumously collected in Janet Frame: In Her Own Words, pp. 154-58.
• ‘An Angel in Waiting: Our Greatest Writer Is Terminally Ill – Fading Tomorrows’, with Anthony Hubbard, Sunday Star-Times, 7 December 2003.

 

In Translation [Under Construction]

• Die Lagune, trans. into German by Ruth Malchow-Huth (Hamburg: Nannen, 1962).
• De Lagune en andere verhalen, trans. into Dutch by May van Sligter (Breda: De Geus, 1991; 1992).
• La Laguna e altre storie, trans. into Italian by Antonella Sarti (Milan: Ugo Guanda Editore, 1993; Rome: Fazi, 1998).
• Lagunen of andre fortellinger, trans. into Norwegian by Kari Risvik (Oslo: Pax Forlag, 1994).
• Lagunen, trans. into Swedish by Marita Zonabend (Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Förlag, 2003).
• Le Lagon et autres nouvelles, trans. into French by Jean Anderson and Nadine Ribault (Paris : Editions des Femmes, 2006).

• Wenn Eulen schrein, trans. into German by Ruth Malchow-Huth (Hamburg: Nannen, 1961; Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1981; 1988; 1991; 1992; 1996; 2002).
• Uilen Roepen, trans. into Dutch by Mary van Sligter (Breda: De Geus, 1982; 1994; Geuzenpocket, 1997).
• La chambre close, trans. into French by Catherine Veilledent (Aix-en-Provence: Alinéa, 1986).
• Gridano i gufi, trans. into Italian by Laura Noulian (Milan: Ugo Guanda Editore, 1994; Milan: Neri Pozza, 2011).
• Les hiboux pleurent vraiment, trans. into French by Catherine Vieilledent (Paris: Editions Joëlle Losfeld/Gallimard, 1994; Paris: Payot & Rivages, 2002).
• Éjjel, ha bagoly huhog, trans. into Hungarian by Béresi Csilla (Budapest: Európa Könyvkiadó, 1999).
• Baykuşlar Öterken, trans. into Turkish by Z. Ceyil Özmen (Yapi Kredi Yayinlari, 2010).
• Ugglor gråter, trans. into Swedish by Marita Zonabend (Stockholm: Modernista, 2012).
• Wenn Eulen schrein, trans. into German by Ruth Malchow-Huth and Karen Nölle (Munich: C.H. Beck, 2012; Munich: DTV [Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag], 2016).

• Gesichter im Wasser, trans. into German by Kyra Stromberg and Monika Schlitzer (Munich: Nannen, 1962; Munich & Zurich: Piper Verlag, 1994).
• Schimmen in het water, trans. into Dutch by Clément Hengst (Amsterdam: Van Ditmar, 1963).
• Visages noyés, trans. into French by Solange Lecomte (Paris: Seuil, 1963; Paris: Editions Joëlle Losfeld/Gallimard, 1996; Paris: Payot & Rivages, 2004).
• Volti nell’acqua, trans. into Italian by Elena Lante Rospigliosi (Milan: Rizzoli, 1963).
• Rostros en el agua, trans. into Spanish by Alfredo Percovich (Buenos Aires, Barcelona, & México City: Plaza & Janés, 1965; Barcelona: Círculo de Lectores, 1965; 1970).
• Dentro il Muro, trans. into Italian by Lidia Perria (Milan: Interno Giallo Editore, 1990; Milan: TEA [Tascabili degli Editori Associati], 1991; 1994).
• Rostros en el agua, trans. into Spanish by Marta Pessarrodona Artigas (Barcelona: Tiempos Modernos/Ediciones B, 1991).
• Ansikter i vannet, trans. into Norwegian by Kari Risvik (Oslo: Pax Forlag, 1993).
• Gezichten in het water, trans. into Dutch by May van Sligter (Breda: De Geus, 1993).
• Ansikten i vattnet, trans. into Swedish by Annika Preis (Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Förlag, 1997; Stockholm: Modernista, 2012).
• Twarze w Wodzie, trans. into Polish by Pawel Laskowicz (Poznan: Zysk i S-ka, 2000; Replika, 2015).
• Sudaki Yüsler, trans. into Turkish by Ayça Çınaroğlu (Yapi Kredi Yayinlari, 2014).
• Volti nell’acqua, trans. into Italian by Lidia Perria (Milan: Neri Pozza, 2015).

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