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Ian James Rankin
OBE DL FRSE FRSL (born
28 Aprile
1960) is a Scots crime writer that is maist weel-kent fur his Inspector Rebus novelles. He haes written several pieces o literar criticism as weel.
Rankin wis born in Cardenen,
Fife
. His faither awnt a grocery shop an his maither wirked in a schuil canteen. He wis scuiled at Beath Hie Schuil,
Coudenbeith
. His fowks wis scunnert whan he waled tae study literatur, as thay'd expectit him tae study fur a trade. Heezed up bi his Inglis teacher, he huild at it an graduatit in 1982 fae the
Varsity o Edinburgh
, whaur he wirked on a doctorate on Murial Spark forby, but didnae fienish it. He haes taucht at the varsity an retains a active pairt wi the James Tate Memorial Prize.
He bade in Tottenham, Lunnon, fur fower year than rural Fraunce fur sax year while he fordert his career as a novelist. Afore becomin a fou-time novelist, he wirked as a grape picker, swineherd, taxman, alcohol resaircher, jurnalist, college secretar an punk muisicker in a baund cried the Dancing Pigs.
Rankin set oot tae be a mainstream scriever an thocht his furst novelles,
Knots and Crosses
an
Hide and Seek
wis mainstream beuks, in keepin wi the traditions o
Robert Louis Stevenson
an e'en Murial Spark. He wis discomfitit bi thaim bein cried genre fiction. Alan Massie, the Scots writer that tutort Rankin while Massie wis writer-in-residence, telt him "Div ye think John Buchan iver wirrit aboot whether he wis writin literatur or no?" Rankin's Inspector Rebus novelles is set mainly in
Edinburgh
. Thay ur thocht tae be major contributions tae the tairtan noir genre.
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