![]() ![]() ![]() “I thought I was going to become a university lecturer writing these very elegant, intricate novels of the human condition on the side.” He became a crime writer by accident. ![]() But a proper ‘literary one’: that had been his ambition since university. ![]() You know, there’s a dark core inside me as well which is maybe exorcised by the writing of these books.” Ian Rankin never wanted to be a crime writer. It comes from that, it comes from the tradition of the crime novel and it comes a bit from me. “The dark side of Rebus is reflected in everything it’s reflected in Edinburgh, it’s reflected in the job that he does, it’s reflected in the literature that I come from. Three qualities that are notably absent from the murky and schizophrenic Edinburgh about which he writes. Ian Rankin is bright, welcoming and affable. Everything clicked.” He is now the hottest name in British crime fiction. “That is when things really took off, sales quadrupled. Two years ago Ian Rankin’s Black and Blue won The Macallan Gold Dagger, the annual international crime writing award. ![]()
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