Name Ronald Frame Role Novelist | Education University of Oxford | |
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Nominations Stonewall Book Award-Barbara Gittings Literature Award Books Havisham: A Novel, The Lantern Bearers, Unwritten Secrets, Havisham: A Novel Inspired b, Permanent violet | ||
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Ronald Frame (born 23 May 1953) 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 Award 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.