Owls Resonates Fifty Years On

Janet Frame’s debut novel, Owls Do Cry, released by New Zealand’s Pegasus Press in 1957, is the Frankfurter Allgemeine’s ‘Book of the Week’, reviewed by Sabine Doering. Doering writes that in the novel the author refrains from “sentimental clichés” and that Frame’s book still resonates half a century after its publication. The German edition, Wenn Eulen schrein, is translated by Ruth Malchow. Frame was born in Dunedin in 1924. She died in 2004, aged 79. New Zealand is the Guest of Honour at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, the world’s largest. The Fair runs 10 October through 14 October.