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Ian Rankin, a graduate of the University of Edinburgh, is an award-winning Scottish Crime writer. His well-known series of Inspector Rebus novels are best-sellers on several continents. The series, which started with Knots and Crosses (1987), has been hugely successful, accounting for 10% of all crime book sales in the UK. The books now routinely sell half a million copies within the first three months of printing, and have been translated into 36 languages. The novels are acclaimed for their contribution to the 'Tartan Noir' genre. He was a Literature tutor at the University of Edinburgh where he retains an involvement with the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Rankin has been elected as a Hawthornden Fellow and won the Chandler-Fulbright Award. He has also won two Crime Writers' Association (CWA) Dagger prizes for short stories and in 1997 the CWA Macallan Gold Dagger for Fiction for Black and Blue, which was also short-listed for the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award for best novel. In 2008 he won the ITV3 Crime Thriller Award for Author of the Year, for Exit Music. He has honorary doctorates from the University of Edinburgh, the University of Abertay Dundee, and the University of St Andrews and, in 2005, from the University of Hull. In June 2002 he was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the Golden Jubilee Queen's Birthday Honours List for services to literature.

http://www.ianrankin.net/ - Ian Rankin's website.

Ian Rankin is brought to the Galle Literary Festival by The British Council. 

Ian Rankin will be featured at the following events:

Friday 29 January, 8.00 PM Onwards, Tamarind Hill: Burns' Supper

Saturday 30 January, 4.45 PM - 5.45 PM, Hall de Galle: Life Sentences

Saturday 30 January, 8.00 PM - 10.00 PM, Kahanda Kanda: Literary Dinner

Sunday 31 January, 6.30 PM - 8.00 PM, Galle Fort Hotel: Detectives at the Bar

Please click on Programme for more details about these events!