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Janet Frame

1924 - 2004

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Janet Paterson Frame (28 August 1924 – 29 January 2004) was a New Zealand author. She is internationally renowned for her work, which includes novels, short stories, poetry, juvenile fiction, and an autobiography, and received numerous awards including being appointed to the Order of New Zealand, New Zealand's highest civil honour. Frame's celebrity derived from her dramatic personal history as well as her literary career. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Janet Frame has received more than 761,178 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Janet Frame is the 3,009th most popular writer (up from 3,828th in 2019), the 31st most popular biography from New Zealand (up from 42nd in 2019) and the 4th most popular New Zealander Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 760k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.61

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.18

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.45

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Janet Frame ranks 3,009 out of 5,755. Before her are Charles Blanc, Sachchidananda Vatsyayan, Willem Frederik Hermans, Eugène Burnouf, Rolf Hochhuth, and Grigore Vieru. After her are Anthony Horowitz, Robert McKee, Pascal Quignard, Adam Michnik, Judith Gautier, and Sohrab Sepehri.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Janet Frame ranks 196. Before her are José Donoso, Marjorie Boulton, Philip Stone, Luděk Pachman, Josef Škvorecký, and Marc Ferro. After her are Jean-François Revel, Maurice Karnaugh, Riccardo Cucciolla, Nina Foch, Mutesa II of Buganda, and John Hansen. Among people deceased in 2004, Janet Frame ranks 126. Before her are Philip Arthur Fisher, Franz König, Fred Lawrence Whipple, Helmut Griem, Elvin Jones, and Juan Zambudio Velasco. After her are Antonio Gades, Miklós Fehér, Dimebag Darrell, Ota Šik, M. S. Subbulakshmi, and Howard Keel.

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In New Zealand

Among people born in New Zealand, Janet Frame ranks 31 out of 248. Before her are Marton Csokas (1966), Ngaio Marsh (1895), Graham McRae (1940), Rob Hall (1961), Richard Curtis (1956), and Andrew Niccol (1964). After her are Cliff Curtis (1968), Jacinda Ardern (1980), Taika Waititi (1975), Roy Kerr (1934), William Phillips (1914), and Helen Clark (1950).

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Among WRITERS In New Zealand

Among writers born in New Zealand, Janet Frame ranks 4. Before her are Katherine Mansfield (1888), Ngaio Marsh (1895), and Richard Curtis (1956). After her are Keri Hulme (1947), Margaret Mahy (1936), Hugh Walpole (1884), Ruth Park (1917), and Philippa Boyens (2000).

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