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Ian James Rankin OBE DL FRSE FRSL (born 28 Aprile 1960) is a Scots crime writer that is maist weel-kent fur his Inspector Rebus novelles. He haes written several pieces o literar criticism as weel.
Rankin wis born in Cardenen, Fife. His faither awnt a grocery shop an his maither wirked in a schuil canteen. He wis scuiled at Beath Hie Schuil, Coudenbeith. His fowks wis scunnert whan he waled tae study literatur, as thay'd expectit him tae study fur a trade. Heezed up 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 active pairt wi the James Tate Memorial Prize.
He bade in Tottenham, Lunnon, fur fower year than rural Fraunce fur sax year while he fordert his career as a novelist. Afore becomin a fou-time novelist, he wirked as a grape picker, swineherd, taxman, alcohol resaircher, jurnalist, college secretar an punk muisicker in a baund cried the Dancing Pigs.
Rankin set oot tae be a mainstream scriever an thocht his furst novelles, Knots and Crosses an Hide and Seek wis mainstream beuks, in keepin wi the traditions o Robert Louis Stevenson an e'en Murial Spark. He wis discomfitit bi thaim bein cried genre fiction. Alan Massie, the Scots writer that tutort Rankin while Massie wis writer-in-residence, telt him "Div ye think John Buchan iver wirrit aboot whether he wis writin literatur or no?" Rankin's Inspector Rebus novelles is set mainly in Edinburgh. Thay ur thocht tae be major contributions tae the tairtan noir genre.- ...that a Jock focht in Warld War II?
- ...that there wis a hurricane at the 1972 Warld Snooker Championship?
- ...that ae Orcadian wheel wis taen oot o the Heilans?
- ...that the World's Strongest Man competition wis co-foondit bi ae tosser?
- Retaliatin fur an Israeli airstrike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus, Iran sent three hunner missile an drone agin Israel causin threttie deiths.
- The opposition Democratic Alliance buir the gree i the legislative wale i the Sooth Korea.
- Dimitar Glavtchev becomes Prime meenister o Bulgarie, Simon Harris o Ireland an Bjarni Benediktsson o Iceland.
- A tot solar eclipse, the Great North American Eclipse wis visible ootthrou Mexico, the USA an Canada, afore feenishin i the Atlantic Ocean.
- 1253 – Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk, propounds Namu Myōhō Renge Kyō for the verra first time an declares it tae be the essence o Buddhism, in effect foondin Nichiren Buddhism.
- 1789 – Mutiny on the Bounty: Lieutenant William Bligh an 18 sailors are set adrift an the rebel crew returns tae Tahiti briefly an then sets sail for Pitcairn Island.
- 1923 – Wembley Stadium is appent, named ineetially as the Empire Stadium.
- 1945 – Benito Mussolini an his mistress Clara Petacci are executit bi a firin squad consistin o members o the Italian resistance muivement.
- 1947 – Thor Heyerdahl (picturt) an five crew mates set out frae Peru on the Kon-Tiki tae demonstrate that Peruvian natives coud hae settled Polynesie.
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