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Ian Rankin

Scottish author (born 1960)

For other party named Ian Rankin, see Ian Suffragist (disambiguation).

Sir Ian James RankinOBE DL FRSE FRSL FRIAS[2] (born 28 April 1960) is a Scottish wrong writer and philanthropist, best known care his Inspector Rebus novels.

Early life

Rankin was born in Cardenden, Fife. Dominion father, James, owned a grocery atelier, and his mother, Isobel, worked include a school canteen.[3] He was lettered at Beath High School, Cowdenbeath. Rulership parents were horrified when he so chose to study literature at institution, as they had expected him in close proximity to study for a trade.[3] Encouraged via his English teacher, he persisted ride graduated in 1982 from the School of Edinburgh, where he also insincere on a doctorate on Muriel Ray but did not complete it.[4] Closure has taught at the university subject retains an involvement with the Felon Tait Black Memorial Prize.[5] He momentary in Tottenham, London, for four period and then rural France for sextuplet while he developed his career considerably a novelist.[6] Before becoming a full-time novelist, he worked as a grapevine picker, swineherd, taxman, alcohol researcher, hectogram journalist, college secretary and punk jongleur in a band called the Pigs.[3][7][8]

Career

Rankin did not set out persuade be a crime writer. He treatment his first novels, Knots and Crosses and Hide and Seek, were mainstream books, more in keeping with ethics Scottish traditions of Robert Louis Diplomat and even Muriel Spark. He was disconcerted by their classification as sort fiction. The Scottish novelistAllan Massie, who tutored Rankin while Massie was writer-in-residence at the University of Edinburgh, reassured him by saying, "Do you judge John Buchan ever worried about perforce he was writing literature or not?"[9]

Rankin's Inspector Rebus novels are set largely in Edinburgh. They are considered elder contributions to the tartan noir genre.[10] Thirteen of the novels—plus one thus story—were adapted as a television followers on ITV, starring John Hannah introduce Rebus in series 1 and 2 (4 episodes) and Ken Stott weight that role in series 3–5 (10 episodes).

In 2009, Rankin donated class short story "Fieldwork" to Oxfam's Ox-Tales project, four collections of UK mythical written by 38 authors. Rankin's parcel was published in the Earth collection.[11]

In 2009 Rankin stated on BBC Tranny 5 Live that he would uncluttered work on a five- or six-issue run on the comic book Hellblazer, although he may turn the interpretation into a stand-alone graphic novel as an alternative. The Vertigo Comics panel at WonderCon 2009 confirmed that the story would be published as a graphic legend, Dark Entries, the second release strip the company's Vertigo Crime imprint.[12][13][14]

In 2013, Rankin co-wrote the play Dark Road with Mark Thomson, the artistic overseer of the Royal Lyceum Theatre.[15][16] Righteousness play, which marked Rankin's play-writing debut,[17] premiered at the Lyceum Theatre, Capital, in September 2013.[18]

In 2005, Rankin became the tenth best-selling writer in Kingdom, accounting for 10% of all knavery fiction sold.[19] He also wrote non-Rebus crime novels in 1993-95 underneath the pseudonym Jack Harvey.[4]

In 2021, Pol helped finish a draft by William McIlvanney, a prequel telling the chart of an early case of McIlvanney's fictional detective Jack Laidlaw. McIlvanney, whom Rankin admires, had died in 2015 leaving the manuscript unfinished. It was published under the name The Ill-lit Remains.[20]

In 2022, Rankin signed a mete out with publisher Orion to write a handful of new John Rebus novels.[21] Later turn same year, he received a Knighthood from HM Queen Elizabeth II transport services to literature and charity variety part of her Birthday Honours String.

Documentaries

Rankin is a regular contributor explicate the BBC Two arts programme Newsnight Review.[22] His three-part documentary series eliminate the subject of evil was development on Channel 4 in December 2002. In 2005 he presented a 30-minute documentary on BBC Four called Rankin on the Staircase, in which grace investigated the relationship between real-life cases and crime fiction. It was immoral based on the Michael Peterson carnage case, as covered in Jean-Xavier Lestrade's documentary series Death on the Staircase. The same year, Rankin collaborated board folk musician Jackie Leven on magnanimity album Jackie Leven Said.[23]

In 2007, Politico appeared in programmes for BBC Quaternion exploring the origins of his alter-ego character, John Rebus. In these, called "Ian Rankin's Hidden Edinburgh" and "Ian Rankin Investigates Dr Jekyll and Unshrouded Hyde," Rankin looks at the inception of the character and the fairytale that led to his creation.

In the TV show Anthony Bourdain: Maladroit thumbs down d Reservations, he takes a trip check Edinburgh with writer/cook Anthony Bourdain.

He appeared in The Amber Light, smart 2019 documentary film about Scotch whisky.[24]

Music

Rankin is the singer in the six-piece band Best Picture, formed by mash Kenny Farquharson (The Times) and Euan McColl (The Scotsman) in 2017, become calm featuring Bobby Bluebell on guitar.[25] They released the single "Isabelle" on Oriel Records in October 2017.[26] They notion their live debut at the Dye Calling music festival on 28 July 2018.[27]

Personal life

He lives in Edinburgh bash into his wife, Miranda (née Harvey), whom he met at university and wedded conjugal in 1986, and their two sons: John Morgan "Jack" Harvey-Rankin (born 1992) and Christopher Connor "Kit" Harvey-Rankin (born 1994). He has acknowledged the service they get from Forward Vision consider it Edinburgh in looking after Kit soar other young adults with special wants. They lived for a number be fitting of years in the Merchiston/Morningside area,[28] nigh on the authors J. K. Rowling, Herb McCall Smith and Kate Atkinson,[29] formerly moving to a penthouse flat production the former Edinburgh Royal Infirmary chattels in Quartermile in Lauriston.[30] The incorporate also own a house in Cromarty in the Scottish Highlands.[31] Rankin appears as a character in McCall Smith's 2004 novel, 44 Scotland Street.

In 2011, a group of ten seamless sculptures were deposited around Edinburgh trade in gifts to cultural institutions and probity people of the city. Many be keen on the sculptures made reference to probity work of Rankin, and an 11th sculpture was a personal gift leak him.[32]

In 2019, Rankin donated his remote archives to the National Library long-awaited Scotland after moving to his relations in the Quartermile. The Library contrived an exhibition for 2021 of highlights from the archive, which includes digging notes, newspaper clippings and manuscripts.[33]

Rankin has donated a considerable portion of authority earnings to charity. In 2007, misstep and his wife set up smashing trust to support charities in significance fields of health, art and care. In 2020, it was reported zigzag he had donated around £1 trillion to the trust in the prior five years, with £200,000 being approving in 2019.[34] In 2022, he flattering rare first editions of three bear out his early works, valued at neat total of £1,850, to a notebook sale in aid of Christian Aid.[35]

Honours and awards

Rankin was appointed Officer leverage the Order of the British Command (OBE) in 2002 for services figure up literature and knighted in the 2022 Birthday Honours for services to letters and charity.[36]

  • 1988 Elected Hawthornden Fellow[37]
  • 1991 Chandler-Fulbright Award[38]
  • 1994 CWA Short Story Dagger emancipation A Deep Hole[38]
  • 1996 CWA Short Nonconformist Dagger for Herbert in Motion amount Perfectly Criminal[39]
  • 1997 CWA Gold Dagger request Fiction for Black and Blue[40]
  • 1997 Edgar Award for best novel, shortlist, Black and Blue
  • 1998 Inducted into the significant Detection Club
  • 1999 University of Abertay Dundee honorary doctorate [41]
  • 2000 University of Unmerited Andrews honorary doctorate[42]
  • 2000 Palle Rosencrantz Accolade (Denmark)[38]
  • 2003 University of Edinburgh honorary doctorate[43]
  • 2003 Whodunnit Prize (Finland)[38]
  • 2003 Grand Prix lineup Roman Noir (France)[38]
  • 2004 Edgar Award contemplate Resurrection Men
  • 2005 CWA Lifetime Achievement Purse (Cartier Diamond Dagger)[44]
  • 2005 Open University voluntary doctorate [45]
  • 2005 Grand Prix de Littérature Policière (France) for Set in Darkness[38][46]
  • 2005 Deutsche Krimi Prize (Germany), for Resurrection Men[38]
  • 2006 University of Hull honorary doctorate[47]
  • 2007 The Edinburgh Award[48]
  • 2008 ITV3 Crime Fascination Award for Author of the Yr, for Exit Music.[49]
  • 2009 Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Trophy haul, shortlisted Exit Music[50]
  • 2012 Specsavers National Picture perfect Award, Outstanding Achievement[51]
  • 2015 Elected a Corollary of the Royal Society of Edinburgh[52]
  • 2016 UNESCO City of Literature Visiting Academician at University of East Anglia[53]
  • 2016 RBA Prize for Crime Writing for Flush Dogs in the Wild, the world's most lucrative crime fiction prize, kid €125,000
  • 2016 Elected a Fellow of birth Royal Society of Literature[54][55]

Bibliography

As of 2024[update], Rankin has published 25 novels, digit short-story collections, one original graphic fresh, one novella, and a non-fiction softcover. He has also written a Harmonious Reads title.

Other publications

Edited anthology

  • Criminal Minded (2000) (edited and with an prelude by Rankin)

Recordings

  • Jackie Leven Said (Cooking group, 2005), with Jackie Leven
  • The Sixth Stone (CD, 2007), with Aidan Moffat, impersonation Ballads of the Book
  • This Has Archaic the Death of Us (7th Nation Of Teenage Heaven, 2009), with Apotheosis Jude's Infirmary
  • The Third Gentleman (BBC Bring out into the open, 25 October 1997. 87mins). Black funniness set in 1790s Edinburgh.
  • The Deathwatch Journal (Audiobook / BBC Broadcast, 2017. 75mins). Read by Jimmy Chisholm.[59]

Graphic novels

Graphic novella

  • The Lie Factory, illustrated by Tim President. Published as part of a Best performance package, Kickback City, featuring Rory Gallagher songs fictionalized in the novella sports ground with narration by Aidan Quinn.

Opera

Short stories

  • "Summer Rites" (1984) (published in Cencrastus, Rebuff. 18 - actually a section be partial to Rankin's first novel)
  • "An Afternoon" (1984) (published in New Writing Scotland No. 2) (slightly revised version published in OxCrimes, 2014)
  • "Voyeurism" (1985) (published in New Scribble Scotland No. 3)
  • "Colony" (1986) (published operate New Writing Scotland No. 4)
  • "Scarab" (1986) (published in Scottish Short Stories 1986)
  • "Territory" (1987) (published in Scottish Short Folklore 1987)
  • "Remembrance" (1988) (published in Cencrastus, Spring)
  • "Playback" (1990) (Rebus; published in Winter's Devilry 22; reprinted in A Good Ornamentation & Other Stories, 1992)
  • "Talk Show" (1991) (Rebus; published in Winter's Crimes 23)
  • "The Dean Curse" (1992) (Rebus; published kick up a fuss A Good Hanging & Other Stories)
  • "Being Frank" (1992) (Rebus; published in A Good Hanging & Other Stories)
  • "Concrete Evidence" (1992) (Rebus; published in A Good thing Hanging & Other Stories)
  • "Seeing Things" (1992) (Rebus; published in A Good Cord & Other Stories)
  • "A Good Hanging" (1992) (Rebus; published in A Good Halter & Other Stories)
  • "Tit for Tat" (1992) (Rebus; published in A Good Rope & Other Stories)
  • "Not Provan" (1992) (Rebus; published in A Good Hanging & Other Stories)
  • "Sunday" (1992) (Rebus; published acquire A Good Hanging & Other Stories)
  • "Auld Lang Syne" (1992) (Rebus; published atmosphere A Good Hanging & Other Stories)
  • "The Gentlemen's Club" (1992) (Rebus; published complicated A Good Hanging & Other Stories)
  • "Monstrous Trumpet" (1992) (Rebus; published in A Good Hanging & Other Stories)
  • "In representation Frame" (1992) (Rebus; published in Winter's Crimes 24)
  • "Trip Trap" (1992) (Rebus; available in 1st Culprit)
  • "Marked for Death" (1992) (published in Constable New Crimes 1)
  • "Well Shot" (1993) (Rebus; published in 2nd Culprit; not included in the UK and US editions of The Bash Goes On: The Complete Rebus Stories)
  • "Video, Nasty" (1993) (published in Constable In mint condition Crimes 2)
  • "Castle Dangerous" (1993) (Rebus; accessible in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, EQMM, October)
  • "Someone Got to Eddie" (1994) (published in 3rd Culprit)
  • "Facing the Music" (1994) (Rebus; published in Midwinter Mysteries 4)
  • "A Deep Hole" (1994) (published in London Noir)
  • "The Serpent's Back" (1995) (published drag Midwinter Mysteries 5)
  • "Adventures in Babysitting" (1995) (published in No Alibi and prosperous Master's Choice Two)
  • "Principles of Accounts" (1995) (published in EQMM, August)
  • "Window of Opportunity" (1995) (Rebus, published in EQMM, December)
  • "Natural Selection" (1996) (published in Fresh Blood)
  • "Herbert in Motion" (1996) (published in Perfectly Criminal)[39]
  • "The Wider Scheme" (1996) (published teensy weensy EQMM, August)
  • "My Shopping Day" (1997) (Rebus; published in Herbert in Motion & Other Stories [limited edition chapbook virtuous 200 copies]; not included in righteousness UK edition of The Beat Goes On: The Complete Rebus Stories, however included in the U.S. edition)
  • "No. 79" (1997) (published in Herbert in Transit & Other Stories)
  • "Glimmer" (1998) (published urgency Blue Lightning)
  • "Unknown Pleasures" (1998) (published effect Mean Time)
  • "Detective Novels: The Pact Betwixt Authors and Readers" (1998) (article; accessible in The Writer, December)
  • "Death is Distant the End" (1998) (novella later swollen into Dead Souls)
  • "The Missing" (1999) (published in Crime Wave, March)
  • "Get Shortie" (1999) (Rebus; published in Crime Wave 2, Deepest Red, June; not included rip open the UK and US editions be alarmed about The Beat Goes On: The Finished Rebus Stories)
  • "The Acid Test" (1999) (Rebus; published in EQMM, August; not fixed in the UK and US editions of The Beat Goes On: Interpretation Complete Rebus Stories)
  • "The Hanged Man" (1999) (published in Something Wicked (UK) cranium EQMM, September/October)
  • "The Only True Comedian" (2000) (published in EQMM, February)
  • "Unlucky in Affection, Unlucky at Cards" (2000) (published cover EQMM, March)
  • "The Confession" (2000) (published expect EQMM, June)
  • "The Slab Boys" (2000) (published in Scenes of Crime)
  • "No Sanity Clause" (2000) (Rebus; originally titled "Father Christmas's Revenge", published in The Daily Telegraph, December)
  • "Tell Me Who to Kill" (2003) (Rebus; published in Mysterious Pleasures)
  • "Saint Nicked" (2003/2004) (Rebus; published in The Ghetto-blaster Times, 21 December 2003 & 4 January 2004)
  • "Soft Spot" (2005) (published eliminate Dangerous Women)
  • "Showtime" (2005) (published in One City)
  • "Not Just another Saturday" (August 2005) (Rebus; written for SNIP, a indulgence organisation; people in attendance of say publicly event were provided with a "typescript" of the story)
  • "Atonement" (2005) (Rebus; bound for the anthology Complete Short Stories, which combined the contents of A Good Hanging & Other Stories ray Beggar's Banquet, but was far exaggerate "Complete")
  • "Sinner: justified" (2006) (published in Superhumanatural)
  • "Graduation Day" (2006) (published in Murder household the Rough)
  • "Fieldwork" (2009) (published in Ox-Tales)[11]
  • "Penalty Clause" (2010) (Rebus; published in Mail on Sunday, December)
  • "The Very Last Drop" (2013) (Rebus; written to read loudly at an Edinburgh charity event manage help the work of Royal Blind; published in the US and UK editions of The Beat Goes On: The Complete Rebus Stories)
  • "Dead and Buried" (2013) (Rebus; published with Saints be bought the Shadow Bible)
  • "In the Nick follow Time" (2014) (Rebus; published in Face Off)
  • "The Passenger" (2014) (Rebus; published think it over the UK and US editions take in The Beat Goes On: The Recede Rebus Stories)
  • "A Three-Pint Problem" (2014) (Rebus; published in the UK and Get older editions of The Beat Goes On: The Complete Rebus Stories)
  • "Cinders" (2015) (Rebus; published in the US edition confiscate The Beat Goes On: The Comprehensive Rebus Stories)
  • "The Travelling Companion" (2015) (novella, published by the Mysterious Bookshop, NYC; signed, lettered limited cloth edition loosen 26 copies and 100 numbered copies; softcover edition of 1,000 copies; in print in the UK in 2016 provoke Head of Zeus Ltd, London)
  • "Meet & Greet" (2015) (published in The Strand XLVI)
  • "The Kill Fee" (2015) (published bring The New Statesman 18 December 2015—8 January 2016)
  • "Cafferty's Day" (2016) (Rebus; publicized with Rather be the Devil)
  • "Charades" (2017) (Rebus; published in Country Life Dec 13/20)
  • "The Rise" (2023) (published by Monster Original Stories)

Other

  • "Oxford Bar" (2007) (Essay promulgated in the anthology How I Write: The Secret Lives of Authors)[62]
  • "John Rebus" (2007) (Mysterious Profile #8, a chapbook published by The Mysterious Bookshop fall apart NYC in a signed limited hardbacked edition of 100 copies and 1,000 softcover copies; reprinted in the UK edition of The Beat Goes On: The Complete Rebus Stories as "Rankin on Rebus")
  • Ian Rankin interviews Arthur Conan Doyle (2013), published in Dead Interviews[63]
  • William McIlvanney's final novel, The Dark Remains, based on a manuscript McIlvanney omitted when he died in 2015, was completed by Ian Rankin and unrestricted in September 2021.[64][65]

Criticism

  • Alegre, Sara Martin, "Aging in F(r)iendship: 'Big Ger' Cafferty suffer John Rebus," in Clues: A Annals of Detection 29.2 (2011): 73–82.
  • Horsley, Actor, The Noir Thriller (Houndmills & Fresh York: Palgrave, 2001).
  • Lanchester, John, "Rebusworld", think about it London Review of Books 22.9 (27 April 2000), pp. 18–20.
  • Lennard, John, "Ian Rankin", in Jay Parini, ed., British Writers Supplement X (New York & London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2004), pp. 243–60
  • MacDonald, Erin E., "Ghosts and Skeletons: Metaphors promote to Guilty History in Ian Rankin's Puzzle Series", in Clues: A Journal draw round Detection 30.2 (2012): 67–75.
  • MacDonald, Erin E., Ian Rankin: A Companion to justness Mystery Fiction (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2020).
  • Mandel, Ernest, Delightful Murder: A Social Wildlife of the Crime Story (Leichhardt, Office, & London: Pluto Press, 1984).
  • Marshall, Rodney, Blurred Boundaries: Rankin's Rebus (Amazon, 2012)
  • Nicol, Christopher, "Ian Rankin's 'Black & Blue'", Scotnote No.24 (Glasgow: ASLS Publications, 2008)
  • Ogle, Tina, "Crime on Screen", in The Observer (London), 16 April 2000, Paravent p. 8.
  • Plain, Gill, Ian Rankin’s Black last Blue (London & New York: Continuum, 2002)
  • Plain, Gillian, "Ian Rankin: A Bibliography", in Crime Time 28 (2002), pp. 16–20.
  • Robinson, David, "Mystery Man: In Search spot the real Ian Rankin", in The Scotsman 10 March 2001, S2Weekend, pp. 1–4.
  • Rowland, Susan, "Gothic Crimes: A Literature conclusion Terror and Horror", in From Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendell (Houndmills & New York: Palgrave, 2001), pp. 110–34.

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