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Ronald Frame


Born
in Glasgow, Scotland
May 23, 1953

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Literature & Fiction


Ronald Frame was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1953, and educated there and at Oxford. He is the author of thirteen internationally published works of fiction, is an award-winning television and radio scriptwriter, and has recently received international recognition for his short stories set in the fictitious Scottish spa town of Carnbeg.

In 1984 he was joint-winner of the first Betty Trask Prize for fiction. In 1999 his novel The Lantern Bearers was longlisted for The Man Booker Prize and won the 2000 Saltire Award for Scottish Book of the Year.

In August 2001 he delivered the inaugural Saltire Lecture at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, which received wide press coverage. He spoke at the New York Public Library in late October 20 ...more

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Average rating: 3.16 · 1,884 ratings · 365 reviews · 47 distinct works • Similar authors
Havisham
3.10 avg rating — 1,514 ratings — published 2012 — 11 editions
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The Lantern Bearers
3.86 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2001 — 6 editions
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Permanent Violet
3.39 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2002
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Penelope's Hat
3.24 avg rating — 17 ratings — 4 editions
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Winter journey: A novel
3.60 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1984 — 6 editions
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Time in Carnbeg: Short Stories
3.30 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2004
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Sandmouth
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1988 — 4 editions
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Bluette
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1991 — 4 editions
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Unwritten Secrets
3.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions
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A Woman of Judah
3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1989 — 7 editions
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“Life is an enigma. We have to approach it not scientifically but poetically.”
― Ronald Frame, Havisham
tags: enigma, life
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“We were perfectly decorous together. It took the will of both of us. I trusted him with me, and myself with him.”
― Ronald Frame, Havisham
tags: decorous, together, trust
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“Dancing takes a certain lightness, a spring in the step, an elasticity in the calves; a kind of joie de vivre, or alternatively a leavening element of self-proclaiming stupidity in one’s make-up.”
― Ronald Frame, Havisham
tags: dancing
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