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Oscar Winner Minghella Dies at 54
September 26, 2011
Minghella was recently in Botswana filming an adaptation of Alexander McCall Smith's novel'' The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency.'' It is due to air on British television...

' Irma Voth' by Miriam Toews tops Maclean's fiction list
July 30, 2011
3 (4) The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party _ Alexander McCall Smith 4 (1) The Land of Painted Caves _ Jean M. Auel 5 (5) The Fifth Witness _ Michael Connelly 6 (8) The Girl...

Shakespeare's MacBeth meets Africa in Botswana's opera
April 29, 2011
Author Alexander McCall Smith has given Shakespeare's Macbeth an African twist blending wildlife and intrigue in Botswana's first ever opera, staged in a restored garage in the...

Dubai Public Library celebrates new identity with huge book' displays
February 03, 2012
'' A model of renowned author Alexander McCall Smith's book Blue Shoes and Happiness' is displayed at The Dubai Mall; while cookery and lifestyle author Anjum Anand's Eat...

Shakespeare's MacBeth meets Africa in Botswana's opera
February 10, 2010
Author Alexander McCall Smith has given Shakespeare's Macbeth an African twist blending wildlife and intrigue in Botswana's first ever opera, staged in a restored garage in the...

Detective agency series puts Botswana on tourist map
February 20, 2010
Having it on TV has expanded the audience for the books,'' says Race who runs the'' only tour endorsed by Alexander McCall Smith,'' the author of the novels. Benson Phuthego...

Director Anthony Minghella Dies at 54
July 22, 2010
Minghella was in Botswana recently filming an adaptation of Alexander McCall Smith's novel'' The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency,'' which the BBC plans to broadcast Sunday....

'' No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency'' shot in Botswana
July 01, 2011
Alexander McCall Smith's bestselling book'' The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency'' is being turned into a movie on location on Botswana, the film's producer said....

Quotes

"As in Shakespeare's MacBeth, the Okavango Macbeth is about power, ambition and being in control."

— Alexander McCall Smith on November 07, 2009

Alexander McCall Smith Videos

Author backs Prestonpans centre
February 14, 2011 | Press Association UK

Is this a baboon I see before me?
October 20, 2009 | Agence France-Presse

Author McCall Talks 'Tea Time'
April 22, 2009 | WJBK FOX 2 Detroit, MI

Wikipedia

Alexander (R.A.A. ) "Sandy" McCall Smith, CBE, FRSE, (born 24 August 1948) is a Rhodesian-born Scottish writer and Emeritus Professor of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh. In the late 20th century, McCall Smith became a respected expert on medical law and bioethics and served on British and international committees concerned with these issues. He has since become internationally known as a writer of fiction. He is most widely known as the creator of the The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series.

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