In the frame … again

Janet Frame was again shortlisted for the Nobel Prize for Literature for a second time, despite making the Swedish Academy’s top five finalists and being picked to win by one of the country’s chief literary critics – Asa Bechmann, of Swedish daily Dagen Nyheter. The prestigious $2.18 million award went to two time Booker Prize winner, J.M Coetzee of South Africa. Frame previously made the Nobel short-list in 1998.