Awards and Honours
- Elected Hawthornden Fellow
- Won the Chandler-Fulbright Award.
- Two Crime Writers' Association (CWA) Dagger prizes for short stories
- 1997 the CWA Macallan Gold Dagger for Fiction for Black and Blue (which was also short-listed for the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award for best novel).
- 2002, made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the Golden Jubilee Queen's Birthday Honours for services to literature.
- 2004, Edgar Award for Resurrection Men.
- 2005, CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger to mark a lifetime's achievement in crime writing.
- 2008, ITV3 Crime Thriller Award for Author of the Year, for Exit Music.
He has honorary doctorates from the University of Edinburgh, the University of Abertay Dundee, the University of St Andrews and, in 2005, from the University of Hull.
Rankin's novel Exit Music was shortlisted for Theakston’s Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year Award 2009.
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