He recently received the OBE for services to literature, and opted to receive the prize in his home city of Edinburgh, where he lives with his partner and two sons. The film is hitting theaters almost exactly a decade after the last time a Tolkien story was adapted for the big screen, with 2014’s The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies the third and. Ian Rankin is also the recipient of honorary degrees from the universities of Abertay, St Andrews, and Edinburgh.Ī contributor to BBC2's Newsnight Review, he also presented his own TV series, Ian Rankin's Evil Thoughts, on Channel 4 in 2002. /rebates/2fThe-Naming-of-the-Dead-Ian-Rankin2fbook2f9936136&.

Listen online or offline with Android, iOS, web, Chromecast, and Google Assistant. Get instant access to all your favorite books. He is also a past winner of the Chandler-Fulbright Award, and he received two Dagger Awards for the year's best short story and the Gold Dagger for Fiction. The Naming of the Dead audiobook written by Ian Rankin. Ian Rankin has been elected a Hawthornden Fellow. His first Rebus novel was published in 1987 the Rebus books are now translated into 22 languages and are bestsellers on several continents. Born in the Kingdom of Fife in 1960, Ian Rankin graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1982 and then spent three years writing novels when he was supposed to be working towards a PhD in Scottish Literature.

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