Outwith Venue 1:
Studio Theatre @ Carnegie Hall
Following the recent publication of Midnight and Blue, the latest work to feature legendary detective John Rebus, Sir Ian Rankin sits down with the BBC's Nicola Meighan to discuss the cultural moments in his life that he considers most influential.
Born in Fife in 1960, Ian Rankin graduated from the University of Edinburgh. His first Rebus novel, Knots & Crosses, was published in 1987 and the series is now translated into twenty-two languages.
Ian Rankin has been elected a Hawthornden Fellow, and is a past winner of the Chandler-Fulbright Award. He is the recipient of four Crime Writers’ Association Dagger Awards including the prestigious Diamond Dagger in 2005. In 2004, Ian won America’s celebrated Edgar Award for Resurrection Men. He has been shortlisted for the Edgar and Anthony Awards in the USA and won Denmark’s Palle Rosenkrantz prize, the French Grand Prix du Roman Noir and Germany’s Deutscher Krimipreis.
Ian Rankin has received honorary degrees from the universities of Hull, Abertay, St Andrews and Edinburgh as well as The Open University and received an OBE for services to literature.
He lives in Edinburgh with his wife and two sons.
