User:EdouardVuillard/Ronald Frame

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Ronald Frame
OccupationAuthor, playwright
LanguageEnglish
NationalityBritish
Period1984 to present
Website
www.carnbeg.com


Ronald Frame is a Scottish author and playwright.

Early life[edit]

Frame was born in Glasgow.[1] He was educated at the High School of Glasgow, the University of Glasgow and Jesus College, Oxford.[1]

Career[edit]

Frame's first novel, Winter Journey (1984),[1] was joint winner of the 1984 Betty Trask Award awarded by the Society of Authors.[2][3] Frame adapted Winter Journey for his first radio play, broadcast in 1985[1] featuring Jane Asher and Tim Pigott-Smith[4] and nominated for three Sony awards.[5]

Frame's account of his own life in Glasgow, Ghost City, was broadcast on radio in 1991[6] and was dramatised for television in 1994.[7]

Frame's 2001 novel The Lantern Bearers received the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year award[8][5] and Barbara Gittings Honor Award in Fiction from The American Library Association.[5][3]

Bibliography[edit]

Novels (incomplete)

  • Winter Journey (1984)
  • A Long Weekend with Marcel Proust (1986)
  • Sandmouth People (1987)
  • A Woman of Judah (1987)
  • Penelope’s Hat' (1989)
  • Bluette (1990)
  • Underwood and After' (1991)
  • The Sun on the Wall: Three Novels (1994)
  • The Lantern Bearers (2001)
  • Permanent Violet (2002)

Short story collections

  • Watching Mrs. Gordon and Other Stories (1985)
  • Walking My Mistress in Deauville (1992)
  • Time in Carnbeg (2004)[9]

Plays

  • Paris (1985)
  • Out of Time (1987)

Radio Plays (incomplete)

  • Winter Journey (1985)
  • Twister (1986)
  • Rendezvous (1987)
  • Cara (1988)
  • Marina Bray (1989)

External links[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d "Ronald (William Sutherland) Frame". Brief Biographies. Retrieved 31 March 2010.
  2. ^ http://www.societyofauthors.org/prizes-grants-and-awards/prizes-for-fiction-and-non-fiction/the_betty_trask_prize/betty_trask_past_winners.html
  3. ^ a b http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/f/ronald-frame/
  4. ^ http://web.ukonline.co.uk/suttonelms/rframe.html
  5. ^ a b c http://weberstudies.weber.edu/archive/archive%20D%20Vol.%2021.2-25.2/Vol.%2024.2/Ronald%20Frame%20Global%20Spotlight.htm
  6. ^ http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl/aberdeen/a-song-at-last-of-middle-class-1.534964
  7. ^ http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/513642
  8. ^ http://www.saltiresociety.org.uk/literary.htm
  9. ^ http://www.bu.edu/agni/authors/R/Ronald-Frame.html


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