>Frame's celebrity derived from her dramatic personal history as well as her literary career. Following years of psychiatric hospitalisation, Frame was scheduled for a lobotomy that was cancelled when, just days before the procedure, her debut publication of short stories was unexpectedly awarded a national literary prize.
>Later, a panel of psychiatrists determined that she had never had schizophrenia. In the sort of bitterly perceptive, highly personalized twist that infuses much of her writing, that news did not please her.
>“Oh why had they robbed me of my schizophrenia, which had been the answer to all my misgivings about myself?” she wrote in the third volume of her autobiography, which, with the first two, was dramatized in Jane Campion's 1990 film “An Angel at My Table.”
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