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Ian Rankin
<ul><li>Img. No. 1541 </li><li><strong>Ian Rankin</strong> </li><li>2007 </li><li>156 x 195 cm (61.4 x 76.7 in) </li><li>Fine art print on canvas paper </li><li>Edition of 7 </li><li>Framed in Wenge wood/no glas </li><li>Photographed in Zürich</li></ul><span class="beschreibung2"><strong>Ian Rankin</strong><br />*1960<br /><br />Born in Cardenden, Fife, Scotland, UK is a Scottish author and one of the best-selling crime writers in the United Kingdom. His best known books are the Inspector Rebus novels. He has also written several pieces of literary criticism.<br /><br />Rankin’s standard biography states that before becoming a full-time novelist he worked as grape-picker, swineherd, taxman, alcohol researcher, hi-fi journalist, college secretary and punk musician. His CV omits a stint as Literature tutor at the University of Edinburgh where he retains an involvement with the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. After graduating from Edinburgh University he moved to London for four years and then rural France for six while he developed his career as a novelist. He attended Beath High School, Cowdenbeath (which has recently been rebuilt).<br />He lives in Edinburgh with his wife Miranda and their two sons Jack and Kit. Rankin also used to live near the Commonwealth swimming pool. He has stated on a number of occasions that one of his favourite novels is Rivals by Jilly Cooper.<br /><br />Rankin did not set out to be a crime writer. He thought his first novels Knots and Crosses and Hide and Seek were mainstream books, more in keeping with the Scottish traditions of Robert Louis Stevenson and even Muriel Spark (the subject of Rankin\'s uncompleted Ph.D. thesis), and was disconcerted by their classification as genre fiction. He was reassured by Scottish novelist, Allan Massie, who tutored Rankin while Massie was writer-in-residence at Edinburgh University: who would want to be a dry academic writer when <em>they could be John Buchan?</em> Rankin’s Inspector Rebus novels are mainly set in Edinburgh, and are major contributions to the Tartan Noir genre. Four of the novels were televised on ITV, starring John Hannah. In early 2006 Ken Stott took over in the part of Rebus, and was hailed by many fans as an ideal fit for the character.<br /><br />Rankin confirmed that he will soon start work on a five- or six-issue run on the comic book Hellblazer, although the story may be turned into a standalone graphic novel instead. He talked about this at length with Simon Mayo</span>
Description

  • Img. No. 1541
  • Ian Rankin
  • 2007
  • 156 x 195 cm (61.4 x 76.7 in)
  • Fine art print on canvas paper
  • Edition of 7
  • Framed in Wenge wood/no glas
  • Photographed in Zürich
Ian Rankin
*1960

Born in Cardenden, Fife, Scotland, UK is a Scottish author and one of the best-selling crime writers in the United Kingdom. His best known books are the Inspector Rebus novels. He has also written several pieces of literary criticism.

Rankin’s standard biography states that before becoming a full-time novelist he worked as grape-picker, swineherd, taxman, alcohol researcher, hi-fi journalist, college secretary and punk musician. His CV omits a stint as Literature tutor at the University of Edinburgh where he retains an involvement with the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. After graduating from Edinburgh University he moved to London for four years and then rural France for six while he developed his career as a novelist. He attended Beath High School, Cowdenbeath (which has recently been rebuilt).
He lives in Edinburgh with his wife Miranda and their two sons Jack and Kit. Rankin also used to live near the Commonwealth swimming pool. He has stated on a number of occasions that one of his favourite novels is Rivals by Jilly Cooper.

Rankin did not set out to be a crime writer. He thought his first novels Knots and Crosses and Hide and Seek were mainstream books, more in keeping with the Scottish traditions of Robert Louis Stevenson and even Muriel Spark (the subject of Rankin\\\'s uncompleted Ph.D. thesis), and was disconcerted by their classification as genre fiction. He was reassured by Scottish novelist, Allan Massie, who tutored Rankin while Massie was writer-in-residence at Edinburgh University: who would want to be a dry academic writer when they could be John Buchan? Rankin’s Inspector Rebus novels are mainly set in Edinburgh, and are major contributions to the Tartan Noir genre. Four of the novels were televised on ITV, starring John Hannah. In early 2006 Ken Stott took over in the part of Rebus, and was hailed by many fans as an ideal fit for the character.

Rankin confirmed that he will soon start work on a five- or six-issue run on the comic book Hellblazer, although the story may be turned into a standalone graphic novel instead. He talked about this at length with Simon Mayo