Dead Souls - An Inspector Rebus Novel - Poche

Biographie d'Ian Rankin

Born in the Kingdom of Fife in 1960, Ian Rankin graduated from the University of Edinburgh and has since been employed as grape-picker, swineherd, taxman, alcohol researcher, hi-fi journalist and punk musician. His first Rebus novel, Knots & Crosses, was published in 1987 and the Rebus books have now been translated into over a dozen languages and are increasingly popular in the USA. Ian Rankin has been elected a Hawthornden Fellow, and is also a past winner of the prestigious Chandler-Fulbright Award, as well as two CWA short-story Daggers and the 1997 CWA Macallan Gold Dagger for Fiction for Black & Blue, which was also shortlisted for the Mystery Writers of America Edgar award for best novel, Black & Blue, Mortal Causes, Dead Souls and The Hanging Garden have been televised on ITV, starring John Hannah as Inspector Rebus.
Dead Souls, the eleventh novel in the series, was shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger Award in 1999, An Alumnus of the Year at Edinburgh University, he has also been awarded two honorary doctorates, one from the University of Abertay Dundee in 1999 and another, more recently, from the University of St Andrews. He lives in Edinburgh with his wife and two sons.