Nicholas Rankin
Nicholas Rankin (born 1950) is an English writer and broadcaster.
Biography
[edit | edit source]Rankin was born in Yorkshire, England, but grew up in Kenya. His father was born in Glasgow.[1] He was educated at Shrewsbury School and Christ Church, Oxford. He has lived and worked in Bolivia and Catalonia, Spain.
He worked for the BBC World Service for 20 years. He was Chief Producer, Arts, at the BBC World Service, when his eight-part series on ecology and evolution, A Green History of the Planet, won two UN awards.[2][3]
He currently works as a freelance writer and broadcaster and lives in London with his wife, the novelist Maggie Gee. He has one daughter, Rosa.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2009.[4]
Bibliography
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Books
[edit | edit source]- Dead Man's Chest: Travels after Robert Louis Stevenson. London, Faber and Faber, 1987. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
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Critical studies and reviews of Rankin's work
[edit | edit source]- Churchill's Wizards
- Reviewed by Andrew Roberts, "Churchill's Wizards by Nicholas Rankin: review", in The Sunday Telegraph (5 November 2008)
- Reviewed by Michael Bywater, "Churchill's Wizards: the British Genius for Deception, 1914-1945 - Nicholas Rankin", in The Daily Telegraph (17 November 2008)
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- Ian Fleming's Commandos
- Reviewed by William Boyd, "Ian Fleming's Commandos by Nicholas Rankin – review", in The Guardian (22 October 2011)
- Telegram from Guernica
- Reviewed by Robert Macfarlane, "Write the good fight", in The Observer (6 April 2003)
- Reviewed by D. J. Taylor, "Their man in Africa", in The Guardian (12 April 2003)
- Dead Man's Chest: Travels after Robert Louis Stevenson
- a critical assessment is included in Lesley Graham's essay "Questions of Identity on the Stevenson Trail in Scotland", in Brown, Ian and Desmarest, Clarisse Godard (eds.), (2023), Writing Scottishness: Literature and the Shaping of Scottish National Identities, Association for Scottish Literature, Glasgow, pp. 138 - 156, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Rankin, Nicholas (1988), Dead Man's Chest: Travels After Robert Louis Stevenson, Faber and Faber, London, p. 10, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Author page at Faber & Faber website
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Nick Rankin, "Covering arts robustly in the UK". BBC
- Audio Slideshow interview with Nick Rankin on The Interview Online
- Nick Rankin interviewed for the Faber Podcast for Ian Fleming's Commandos, October 2011
- Short video interview with Faber and Faber, October 2011
- Q & A interview with Nick Rankin, discussing Ian Fleming's Commandos on Faber blog
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