Rebus author Sir Ian Rankin has been announced as a guest programmer for the Bloody Scotland International Crime Writing Festival later this year.
The best-selling novelist has sold more than 35 million books and was awarded a knighthood in 2023 for services to literature and charity, and becomes the first ever guest programmer invited to join the team.
Bloody Scotland will run from September 12 to 14 in Stirling and Sir Ian will join fellow authors Abir Mukherjee, Lin Anderson, Craig Robertson and Gordon J. Brown as part of the programming team.
They will bring a ‘world-class’ line-up of authors and special guests to the festival with the programme to be launched in June this year.
Sir Ian Rankin said: “Bloody Scotland manages to remain the world’s friendliest and most inclusive crime fiction festival while also attracting the biggest and brightest names in the business to the city of Stirling. It’s epic!”
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Sir Ian has been involved in Bloody Scotland since its inception, including leading the torchlit procession through the streets of Stirling and he has captained the Scotland crime writers football team against England.
Festival director Bob McDeviit said: "Ian has been one of the foremost supporters of Bloody Scotland since the beginning and he has brought imagination and enthusiasm to the programming process.
“He is a much loved and respected writer around the world and has friends and contacts in all sorts of places which have delivered some unique events for us this year."
