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Iain Banks
Iain Menzies Banks was a Scottish author, writing mainstream fiction as Iain Banks and science fiction as Iain M. Banks. His books have been adapted for theatre, radio, and television. In 2008, The Times named Banks in their list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945.
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culture · Scottish writer (1954–2013) · science fiction writer · novelist · writer · philosopher · also Iain Banks, Iain M. Banks, Iain Menzies Banks, Banks
Born 16 February 1954 · Died 9 June 2013 · Q312579
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2026· 7 entries
“t let Espedair Street be filmed unless the songs used in the film were his own he”
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“I buy more than my numerically fair share of curries, but I don”
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“I took my washing home to mum, went to the pub one night a week when Tomorrow”
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“His opinion was: ‘as a challenge, without peer. As music, without merit.’”
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Public attention spiked: 3,084 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4.4× the usual 705, with 0 article edits.
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2024· 1 entry
The Guardian: ‘An explosion of talent’: Iain Banks’s The Wasp Factory at 40
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2023· 1 entry
The Guardian: Where to start with: Iain Banks
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2021· 2 entries
Yahoo: ‘Stonemouth’ Author Iain Banks’ Literary Estate Moves to Curtis Brown Group for Representation (EXCLUSIVE)
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The delayed single volume of The Culture: Notes and Drawings was cancelled and replaced with two separate volumes: a landscape artbook of The Culture: The Drawings and a companion volume containing notes, excerpts and ne
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2020· 2 entries
The Guardian: Amazon TV adaptation of Iain Banks' Culture series is cancelled
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Published “The mutational constraint spectrum quantified from variation in 141,456 humans” in Nature — cited 9,237 times.
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2018· 2 entries
The Guardian: Does Elon Musk really understand Iain M Banks's 'utopian anarchist' Culture?
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The Guardian: Iain M Banks's drawings of the Culture universe to be published in 2019
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2017· 2 entries
The Guardian: The day Iain Banks drove me through the Scottish Highlands
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The Guardian: 30 years of Culture: what are the top five Iain M Banks novels?
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2016· 2 entries
Published “Analysis of protein-coding genetic variation in 60,706 humans” in Nature — cited 9,070 times.
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It was ranked the second-best Scottish novel of all time in a BBC Scotland poll
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2015· 1 entry
Published “A global reference for human genetic variation” in Nature — cited 17,882 times.
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2013· 4 entries
Digital Spy: Iain Banks dies: Neil Gaiman, Irvine Welsh, more pay tribute
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Digital Spy: Author Iain Banks dies, aged 59
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Died 2013-06-09.
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“All page numbers from the trade paperback edition published by Orbit Books”
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2012· 1 entry
The title was his creation and on 3 October 2012 Banks accepted a T-shirt inscribed with it.
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2011· 3 entries
Published “A framework for variation discovery and genotyping using next-generation DNA sequencing data” in Nature Genetics — cited 10,683 times.
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Banks featured on the BBC Radio 4 programme Saturday Live
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Published “The variant call format and VCFtools” in Bioinformatics — cited 15,833 times.
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2010· 4 entries
Awarded honorary doctorate presented by The Open University (2010).
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Published “The Genome Analysis Toolkit: A MapReduce framework for analyzing next-generation DNA sequencing data” in Genome Research — cited 26,185 times.
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Banks called for a cultural and educational boycott of Israel after the Gaza flotilla raid incident
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In 2010, Banks called for a cultural and educational boycott of Israel after the Gaza flotilla raid incident.
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2009· 1 entry
With Nadia Molinari producing and directing
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2008· 1 entry
The Times named Banks in their list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945
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2006· 1 entry
Captained a team of writers to victory in a special series of BBC Two's University Challenge
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2005· 1 entry
And applies lessons from Banks's experience with South Africa's apartheid era
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2004· 3 entries
“s visits to the single malt distilleries of Scotland in search of the finest whisky, including his musings on other subjects such as roads, cars and politics. Banks published work under two names. His parents had named him”
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Published “Glide: A New Approach for Rapid, Accurate Docking and Scoring. 1. Method and Assessment of Docking Accuracy” in Journal of Medicinal Chemistry — cited 9,138 times.
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Banks wrote Raw Spirit (subtitled In Search of the Perfect Dram), a travel book of Banks's visits to the single malt distilleries of Scotland in search of the finest whisky, including his musings on other subjects such a
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2002· 1 entry
Endorsed the Scottish Socialist Party
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2000· 1 entry
(directed by Gavin Millar); retitled Retribution for its US DVD/video release
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1998· 3 entries
Banks was in a near-fatal accident when his car rolled off the road
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In 1998 Banks was in a near-fatal accident when his car rolled off the road.
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Espedair Street was dramatised as a serial for Radio 4, presented by Paul Gambaccini in the style of a Radio 1 documentary
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded BSFA Award for Best Novel for Excession (1996).
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1995· 1 entry
Awarded Tähtivaeltaja Award (1995).
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1994· 1 entry
Awarded BSFA Award for Best Novel for Feersum Endjinn (1994).
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1992· 1 entry
But in 2005, after 15 years of marriage, they separated
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1987· 1 entry
And was the first of several in the acclaimed Culture series
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1985· 1 entry
Then The Bridge in 1986, and in 1987 Espedair Street, which was later broadcast as a series on BBC Radio 4
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1984· 1 entry
Banks met his first wife Annie in London before the 1984 release of his first book.
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1954· 1 entry
Born 1954-02-16.
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