Author: Alexander McCall-Smith

Alexander Mc Call Smith is one of the world’s most prolific and most popular authors. His various series of books have been translated into over forty-six languages and have sold more than 30 million copies across the world. These include the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, the 44 Scotland Street novels, the Isabel Dalhousie novels and the Von Igelfeld series. He also writes stand-alone novels, children’s fiction and libretti for short operas. He has received numerous awards for his writing and holds thirteen honorary doctorates from universities in Europe and North America. In 2007 he received a CBE for services to literature and in 2011 was honoured by the President of Botswana for services through literature to the country. In 2015 he received the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction and in 2017 the National Arts Club (of America) Medal of Honor for Achievement in Literature.