Ronald Frame
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Ronald Frame is a prize-winning novelist, short story writer and dramatist. He was educated in Glasgow
, and at Oxford University.
Unwritten Secrets, a novel and his fifteenth book of fiction, was published in 2010.
He has written many original plays and adaptations (most recently The Other Simenon) for BBC Radio. His serial The Hydro (three series) was a popular success. A radio memoir of growing up in 50s and 60s Scottish suburbia, Ghost City, transferred to BBC Television.
His first TV film Paris, won the Samuel Beckett Prize and PYE’s ‘Most Promising Writer New to Television’ Award.
His papers, to 2000, can be accessed at the National Library of Scotland
in Edinburgh
.
Fuller biographical details appear in Who’s Who (A & C Black), and in Debrett’s People of Today and International Who’s Who.
For a comprehensive list of books and plays for radio and screen see external website link below.
Glasgow
Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...
, and at Oxford University.
Unwritten Secrets, a novel and his fifteenth book of fiction, was published in 2010.
He has written many original plays and adaptations (most recently The Other Simenon) for BBC Radio. His serial The Hydro (three series) was a popular success. A radio memoir of growing up in 50s and 60s Scottish suburbia, Ghost City, transferred to BBC Television.
His first TV film Paris, won the Samuel Beckett Prize and PYE’s ‘Most Promising Writer New to Television’ Award.
His papers, to 2000, can be accessed at the National Library of Scotland
National Library of Scotland
The National Library of Scotland is the legal deposit library of Scotland and is one of the country's National Collections. It is based in a collection of buildings in Edinburgh city centre. The headquarters is on George IV Bridge, between the Old Town and the university quarter...
in Edinburgh
Edinburgh
Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland, the second largest city in Scotland, and the eighth most populous in the United Kingdom. The City of Edinburgh Council governs one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas. The council area includes urban Edinburgh and a rural area...
.
Fuller biographical details appear in Who’s Who (A & C Black), and in Debrett’s People of Today and International Who’s Who.
For a comprehensive list of books and plays for radio and screen see external website link below.
Publications
- Time in Carnbeg, Polygon 2004, ISBN 0-9544-0755-5
- Permanent Violet, Polygon 2002, ISBN 0-7486-6321-5
- The Lantern BearersThe Lantern Bearers (Frame novel)The Lantern Bearers is the twelfth novel by Scottish author and playwright Ronald Frame. It won the Saltire Book of the Year award in 2000....
, Duckworth 1999, 2001, ISBN 0-7156-3133-0 - The Sun on the Wall, Hodder & Stoughton 1994, Sceptre 1995, ISBN 0-340-62858-8
- Walking my Mistress in Deuville (A Novella and Nine Stories,) Hodder & Stoughton 1992, Sceptre 1993, ISBN 0-340-57971-4
- Underwood and After, Hodder & Stoughton 1991, Sceptre 1992, ISBN 0-340-56540-3
- Bluette, Hodder & Stoughton 1990, Sceptre 1991, ISBN 0-340-55109-7
- Penelope's Hat, Hodder & Stoughton 1989, Sceptre 1990, ISBN 0-340-52455-3
- Paris, Faber and Faber 1987, ISBN 0-571-14776-3
- A Woman of Judah, (a Novel and Fifteen Stories) Bodley Head 1987, Sceptre 1989, ISBN 0-340-50071-9
- Sandmouth People, Bodley Head 1987, Sceptre 1988, ISBN 0-340-42320-X
- A Long Weekend with Marcel Proust (Seven Stories and a Novel) Bodley Head 1986, Sceptre 1988, ISBN 0-340-42891-0
- Watching Mrs Gordon, and Other Stories Bodley Head 1985, Triad Grafton 1987, ISBN 0-586-06998-4
- Winter Journey, Bodley Head 1984, Triad Grafton 1985, Sceptre 1993, ISBN 0-340-579730