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"The Complaints is a good read -- the 'real page turner' we've come to expect from Rankin. It's packed with strong, well-developed characters"
-- "The Anti-Rebus", The Ottawa Citizen
Meet Ian Rankin during Harbourfront IFOA XXX
Tuesday, October 27, 8PM at Fleck Theatre
Ian Rankin hosts a reading with Michael Connelly, Dani Couture, William Deverell, Denise Mina
Wednesday, October 28, 8PM at Fleck Theatre
Reading: Linwood Barclay, John Brady, Jennica Harper, Ian Rankin
Canada AM interview of Ian Rankin: Watch here
Listen to Ian interview top chef and author of From Nature of Plate Tom Kitchin at the Edinburgh Writers Festival:
Born in the Kingdom of Fife in 1960, Ian Rankin graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1982, and then spent three years writing novels when he was supposed to be working towards a PhD in Scottish Literature. His first Rebus novel was published in 1987, and the Rebus books are now translated into more than twenty languages and are bestsellers worldwide.
Ian Rankin has been elected a Hawthornden Fellow, and is also a past winner of the Chandler-Fulbright Award. He is the recipient of four Dagger Awards including the prestigious Diamond Dagger in 2005. In 2004, Ian won the Edgar Award for Resurrection Men. He has also been shortlisted for the Anthony Award in the USA, won Denmark's Palle Rosenkrantz Prize, the French Grand Prix du Roman Noir and the Deutscher Krimipreis. Ian Rankin is also the recipient of honorary degrees from the universities of Abertay, St Andrews, Edinburgh, Hull and the Open University.
Rankin is a number one bestseller in the UK and has received the Order of the British Empire for services to literature, opting to receive the prize in his home city of Edinburgh, where he lives with his partner and two sons. www.ianrankin.net
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