He was appointed a CBE in the December 2006 New Year's Honours List for services to literature. After achieving success as a writer, he gave up these commitments. He is the former chairman of the British Medical Journal Ethics Committee (until 2002), the former vice-chairman of the Human Genetics Commission of the United Kingdom, and a former member of the International Bioethics Commission of UNESCO.
He retains a further involvement with the University in relation to the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He was Professor of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh at one time and is now Emeritus Professor at its School of Law. He returned in 1984 to Edinburgh, Scotland, where he lives today with his wife, Elizabeth, a physician, and their two daughters Lucy and Emily. While there, he cowrote what remains the only book on the country's legal system, Th e Criminal Law of Botswana (1992). He returned to southern Africa in 1981 to help co-found and teach law at the University of Botswana. He won in the children's category, and published thirty books in the 1980s and 1990s. He soon taught at Queen's University Belfast, and while teaching there he entered a literary competition: one a children's book and the other a novel for adults. He was educated at the Christian Brothers College before moving to Scotland to study law at the University of Edinburgh, where he received his Ph.D. His father worked as a public prosecutor in what was then a British colony. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series.Īlexander McCall Smith was born in Bulawayo, in what was then Southern Rhodesia and is now Zimbabwe. He is most widely known as the creator of the The No. He has since become internationally known as a writer of fiction. 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.
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In 2008 the series was adapted as an HBO film series, starring Jill Scott as Precious Ramotswe. Deftly interweaving tragedy and humor to create a memorable tale of human desires and foibles, the book is also an evocative portrait of a distant world. When Precious Ramotswe sets out on the trail of a missing child she is tumbled headlong into some strange situations and not a little danger.
A cross between Kinsey Millhone and Miss Marple, this unlikely heroine specializes in missing husbands, wayward daughters, con men and imposters. The No.1 Ladies´ Detective Agency, located in Gaborone, Botswana, consists of one woman, the engaging Precious Ramotswe. 27)įYI: Anchor is simultaneously issuing two other titles in this series, General audiences will welcome this little gem of a book just as much if not more than mystery readers. Images of this large woman driving her tiny white van or sharing a cup of bush tea with a friend or client while working a case linger pleasantly. Mma Ramotswe's love of Africa, her wisdom and humor, shine through these pages as she shines her own light on the problems that vex her clients. The desultory pace is fine, since she has only a detective manual, the frequently cited example of Agatha Christie and her instincts to guide her. Mma Ramotswe's cases come slowly and hesitantly at first: women who suspect their husbands are cheating on them a father worried that his daughter is sneaking off to see a boy a missing child who may have been killed by witchdoctors to make medicine a doctor who sometimes seems highly competent and sometimes seems to know almost nothing about medicine. 1 Ladies Detective Agency" serve not only to entertain but to explore conditions in Botswana in a way that is both penetrating and light thanks to Smith's deft touch. A series of vignettes linked to the establishment and growth of Mma Ramotswe's "No. The African-born author of more than 50 books, from children's stories ( The Perfect Hamburger) to scholarly works ( Forensic Aspects of Sleep), turns his talents to detection in this artful, pleasing novel about Mma (aka Precious) Ramotswe, Botswana's one and only lady private detective.
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