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Portrait image of Alexander McCall Smith Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex 82010)

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McCall Smith, Alexander

The British author Alexander McCall Smith – called Sandy by family and friends – was born in Bulawayo in the then British colony of Southern Rhodesia (present-day Zimbabwe) as the youngest of four children to a British public prosecutor and his wife. He was schooled at the Christian Brothers College in Bulawayo before travelling to Scotland in 1966 to start studying Law at the University of Edi...

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Vad är fantasy?

By: Agneta Edwards

”Fantasy och skräck ligger i modern utgivning tätt sammantvinnade, så även i litteraturhistorien. De båda genrerna har sin upprinnelse ett par århundraden bort, i en brytpunkt när folktro sakta ersätts av kunskap genom forskning. --- ”

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