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A previously unknown work by Janet Frame found after her death has been published in the latest edition of The New Yorker magazine.
A Night At The Opera was written when Frame was working as a live-in waitress at the former Grand Hotel, now the Southern Cross Hotel, in the Exchange, Dunedin, the Otago Daily Times reports today.
"It was found in her papers after her death," her niece, Pamela Gordon told the paper. "It was written about 1954, as far as we can tell."
Ms Gordon said Frame had a long-standing relationship with the US magazine.
"Janet had a lot of her work published in The New Yorker. She used to joke that she made more out of The New Yorker than she did from her book commissions."
Ms Gordon said the Janet Frame Literary Trust had many unpublished works by the author.
"We're still working our way through all her papers. But we think there's probably another book in it."
Janet Frame died on January 29, 2004, aged 79.
- NZPA
