Ian Rankin

Ian Rankin (1964-) is the UK's number one best-selling crime writer. He lives in Edinburgh, and writes about the city in his award-winning 'Inspector Rebus' novels.

The books have been dramatised for TV and are translated into 22 languages. Ian Rankin also appears regularly on TV.

Born in the Kingdom of Fife in 1960, he graduated from the University of Edinburgh and has since been employed as grape-picker, swineherd, taxman, alcohol researcher, hi-fi journalist and punk musician. He was a prize-winning poet and short-story writer before turning to novels with The Flood, followed by Knots & Crosses in 1987, the first of his powerful Rebus novels, featuring the eponymous Edinburgh detective who fights his inner self and his superiors while exploring the darker people and places of the capital. He has also written under the psuedonym of Jack Harvey.

Rankin has won won many awards for work. He has been elected a Hawthornden Fellow, and is also a past winner of the prestigious Chandler-Fulbright Award, as well the 1997 Crime Writers Association The Macallan Gold Dagger for Fiction for Black & Blue, which was also shortlisted for the Mystery Writers of America 'Edgar' award for best novel. He won the CWA Short Story Dagger Award in 1994 for his tale A Deep Hole, and again in 1996 for Herbert in Motion. Dead Souls, the 10th Rebus novel, was shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger in 1999.



 
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