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Ian Iames Rankin OBE DL FRSE FRSL (born 28 Aprile 1960) is a Scots crime writer that is mayst weel-kent fur his Imspector Rebus nouelles. He haes written seueral pieces o literar criticism as weel.

Rankin wis born in Cardenen, Fife. His faicther awnct a grocery shop an his maicther wirked in a schuil cancteen. He wis scuyled at Beath Hie Schuil, Coudenbeyth. His fowks wis scunnert whan he waled tae study literatur, as thay'd expectit him tae study fur a trade. Heezed vp 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 actiue payrt wi the Iames Tate Memorial Prize.

He bade in Tottenham, Lunnõ, fur fower year than rural Fraunce fur sax year while he fordert his career as a nouelist. Afore becomin a fou-time nouelist, he wirked as a grape picker, swineherd, taxmã, alcohol resayrcher, iurnalist, college secretar an punk muysicker in a baund cried the Dancing Pigs.

Rankin set oot tae be a mainstream scrieuer an thocht his furst nouelles, Knots and Crosses an Hide and Seek wis mainstream beuks, in keepin wi the traditiõs o Robert Louys Steuenson an e'en Murial Spark. He wis discomfitit bi thaim bein cried genre fictiõ. Alan Massie, the Scots writer that tutort Rankin while Massie wis writer-in-residence, telt him "Diu ye think Iohn Buchã iuer wirrit aboot whether he wis writin literatur or no?" Rankin's Imspector Rebus nouelles is set mainly in Edinburgh. Thay vr thocht tae be maior conctributiõs tae the tayrtã sable genre.

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