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Ronald Frame is a Scottish author and playwright.

Early life
Frame was born in Glasgow. He was educated at the High School of Glasgow, the University of Glasgow and Jesus College, Oxford.

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

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

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