![]() In 1974 he moved to Canada, to take an MA in English and creative writing at the University of Windsor, Ontario. ![]() While there he wrote poetry and gave public readings around Yorkshire. He went to Leeds University to study English literature. He described in one interview how he spent the lively summer of 1965 “with his ear glued to his transistor radio and his eyes on the passing girls”. It is not too much of a stretch to assume that aspects of Inspector Banks’s adolescence in the 1960s, as described in Close to Home (2003), the 14th novel in the series, mirrored Robinson’s own. He was born in Castleford, West Yorkshire, to Clifford Robinson, a rent collector, and Miriam (nee Jarvis), a cleaner, and grew up in Armley, a working-class suburb of Leeds (also home to fellow writers Alan Bennett and Barbara Taylor Bradford). ![]() Standing in the Shadows is due to be published next year He completed another Banks novel before he died. He once said he started the Inspector Banks series because he was homesick in his early days in Canada. He was regularly nominated for and frequently won awards in Canada, the US, France, the UK and Sweden.Ī native of Yorkshire, Robinson lived for most of his life in Toronto. Although he had not necessarily intended to write a series, Robinson went on to produce a Banks novel a year – as well as award-winning short stories. ![]()
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