Ronald Frame

Ronald Frame was born in Glasgow, and studied for an MA at the city’s university and a B.Litt at the University of Oxford. He is best known for his 1999 novel The Lantern Bearers, which won the Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year award, and is inspired by an essay of the same name by Robert Louis Stevenson. The Lantern Bearers was selected as one of the 100 Best Scottish Books of all Time.

Ronald Frame He writes short fiction set in the fictional Scottish village of Carnbeg, some of which have been anthologised.

Frame has also won the Samuel Becket Prize for the novel and TV play Paris. He has written widely for TV and Radio, and his first story A Winter Journey was nominated for three Sony Awards.