Thanks to the initiative of German publisher C H Beck,
two classic works of Icon Janet Frame will be reissued in
Germany this year to coincide with the status of New Zealand as special guest
at the Frankfurt Book Fair. The first title is a new translation of Janet
Frame’s first novel Owls Do
Cry (Wenn Eulen Schrein,
1957) and will be released in Germany this month. The first edition of Wenn Eulen Schrein was
published in 1961 and was Janet Frame’s very first foreign translation. Later
in the year Beck will release a fresh edition of Frame’s autobiography, which
has been as popular in Germany as it has been everywhere else.
John Psathas’ (Laureate) soundtrack
for the Salman Rushdie short story In
the South has now been released as an eBook by Booktrack.
The score was written for and recorded live by the NZSO. John now awaits
the outcome of his nomination for ‘Global Greek of the Year’ award.
Promoted by Global Greek World, the award is an online forum for the 7 million
Greeks who live outside their native land. Online voting determines the winner
and closes Sunday 19 February. In addition Good
for Nothing, the 'pavlova western' feature film for which John
wrote the "gritty, dirty" soundtrack, has its cinema release in New
York on Friday 9 March and in New Zealand on Thursday 3 May. The
NZ School of Music will release an original soundtrack CD of the music.
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