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IN THE past few months he has usurped John Grisham as the UK's No2 best-selling author of 2003, made literary history by publishing daily instalments of a new novel in The Scotsman and won his first literary award at the age of 55.
Last night, the Edinburgh-based novelist Alexander McCall Smith was celebrating yet another literary coup, when he was named winner of the prestigious British Book Awards Author of the Year for his series the No1 Ladies' Detective Agency.See the full content of this document
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Mccall Smith's Precious Talent Rewarded
The author, whose books about Precious Rambotswe, Botswana's answer to Miss Marple, have sold three million copies worldwide, joins previous winners such as Salman Rushdie, Roddy Doyle and JK Rowling.
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