Alexander McCall Smith to visit Göteborg Book Fair 2010

Photo: Torbjörn Andersson

We can now confirm that the author of the popular series about the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, Alexander McCall Smith, will attend Göteborg Book Fair in 2010.

- This is an author we have hoped would attend for a very long time, commented Gunilla Sandin, Head of Programmes at the Book Fair. We know that for years many of our visitors have been waiting to meet Alexander McCall Smith, best known for his books about the tea-drinking Mma Ramotswe and her detective agency in Botswana.

Alexander McCall Smith, who is both an author and a professor in medical law, has written over sixty books, and lives in Edinburgh. In addition to the books about the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, Alexander McCall Smith has written about the Sunday Philosophy Club and Professor Dr Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld, as well as life at 44 Scotland Street.

The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency was awarded the Martin Beck Award for the best crime novel in translation by the Swedish Crime Writers' Academy in 2004. McCall Smith's books are published in Sweden by Damm Förlag.