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The Prince of Egypt
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Brenda Chapman
Steve Hickner
Simon Wells
Produced by
Penney Finkelman Cox
Sandra Rabins
Screenplay by
Philip LaZebnik
Nicholas Meyer (additional screenplay material)
Based on
Book of Exodus
Starring
Val Kilmer
Ralph Fiennes
Michelle Pfeiffer
Sandra Bullock
Jeff Goldblum
Danny Glover
Patrick Stewart
Helen Mirren
Steve Martin
Martin Short
Music by
Hans Zimmer
Songs:
Stephen Schwartz
Edited by
Nick Fletcher
Production
company
DreamWorks Animation
Distributed by
DreamWorks Pictures1
Release date
December 16, 1998 (1998-12-16) (premiere)[1]
December 18, 1998 (1998-12-18)[2]
Running time
98 minutes[3]
Country
United States
Language
English
Hebrew
Budget
$70 million[4]
Box office
$218.6 million[4]
The Prince of Egypt is a 1998 American animated epic musical film and the first traditional animated film produced and released by DreamWorks. The film is an adaptation of the Book of Exodus and follows the life of Moses from being a prince of Egypt to his ultimate destiny to lead the children of Israel out of Egypt. Directed by Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner, and Simon Wells, the film features songs written by Stephen Schwartz and a score composed by Hans Zimmer. The voice cast consists of Val Kilmer in a dual role, Ralph Fiennes, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sandra Bullock, Jeff Goldblum, Danny Glover, Patrick Stewart, Helen Mirren, Steve Martin, and Martin Short.
Jeffrey Katzenberg had frequently suggested an animated adaptation of the 1956 film The Ten Commandments while working for The Walt Disney Company, and he decided to put the idea into production after founding DreamWorks in 1995. To make this inaugural project, DreamWorks employed artists who had worked for Walt Disney Feature Animation and the recently disbanded Amblimation, totaling a crew of 350 people from 34 different nations. The film has a blend of traditional animation and computer-generated imagery, created using software from Toon Boom Animation and Silicon Graphics.
Theatrically released on December 18, 1998, and on home video on September 14, 1999, reviews were generally positive, with critics praising the animation, music, and voice work. The film went on to gross over $218 million worldwide in theaters, which made it the most successful non-Disney animated feature at the time. The film's success led to the direct-to-video prequel Joseph: King of Dreams (2000) and the development of a stage adaptation.[5][6] The song "When You Believe" became a commercially successful single in a pop version performed by Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey, and went on to win Best Original Song at the 1999 Academy Awards.
Contents
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1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
3.1 Development
3.2 Design and animation
3.3 Creating the voice of God
4 Music
4.1 Musical numbers
5 Release
5.1 Home media
6 Reception
6.1 Box office performance
6.2 Critical reception
6.3 Censorship
6.4 Accolades
7 Prequel
8 Stage Musical
9 See also
10 Notes
11 References
12 External links
Plot[edit]
In Ancient Egypt, Yocheved, and her two children, Miriam and Aaron, watch as the newborn Hebrew boys are taken and ruthlessly killed as ordered by Pharaoh Seti, who fears that an alarming increase in Hebrew slaves could lead to rebellion. Fearing for her own newborn son's safety, Yocheved places him in a basket afloat on the Nile River, not before bidding him farewell with a final but powerful lullaby. Miriam follows the basket as it sails to the Pharaoh's palace and witnesses her baby brother safely adopted by Queen Tuya, who names him Moses.
Years later, Moses and his brother Rameses are scolded by their father for accidentally destroying a temple during one of their youthful misadventures. At Moses' suggestion, Seti, seeking to give Rameses the opportunity to prove that he is responsible, names him Prince Regent and gives him authority over Egypt's temples. As a tribute, the high priests Hotep and Huy offer him a beautiful young Midianite woman, Tzipporah, whom Rameses gives to Moses, appointing him Royal Chief Architect.
Later that night, Moses follows Tzipporah as she escapes from the palace, and runs into the now-adult Miriam and Aaron, but he does not recognize them. Miriam then sings her mother's lullaby, which Moses remembers; he returns to the palace, eager to return to familiar surroundings. The truth about his past is later confirmed by a nightmare, and finally by Seti himself, who disturbs Moses by claiming the Hebrews are "only slaves". The next day, Moses accidentally kills an Egyptian guard while trying to stop him from whipping a Hebrew slave. Horrified and ashamed, Moses flees into the desert in exile, despite Rameses' pleas to stay.
While in the desert Moses defends three young girls from brigands, only to find out their older sister is Tzipporah. Moses is welcomed by Tzipporah's father and the high priest of Midian, Jethro. After assimilating this new culture, Moses becomes a shepherd and marries Tzipporah. One day, while chasing a stray lamb, Moses discovers a burning bush through which God tells him to go back to Egypt and guide the Hebrew slaves to freedom. God bestows Moses' shepherding staff with his power and promises that he will tell Moses what to say. Moses and Tzipporah return to Egypt, where Moses is happily greeted by Rameses, who is now Pharaoh.
When Moses requests the Hebrews' release and changes his staff into an Egyptian cobra to demonstrate his alliance with God, Hotep and Huy boastfully recreate this transformation, only to have their snakes eaten by Moses' snake. Rather than be persuaded, Rameses hardens and doubles the Hebrews' workload. Moses inflicts nine of the Plagues of Egypt, but Rameses refuses to relent and, against Moses' warning (foreshadowing the final plague), vows to never release the Hebrew slaves. Disheartened, Moses prepares the Hebrews for the tenth and final plague, instructing them to sacrifice a lamb and mark the doorposts with the lamb's blood. That night, the final plague kills all the firstborn children of Egypt, including Rameses' son, while sparing those of the Hebrews. A grief-stricken Rameses finally gives Moses permission to free the Hebrews. Moses leaves and weeps in the streets, heartbroken at the pain he has caused his brother and Egypt.
The following morning, the Hebrews leave Egypt, led by Moses, Miriam, Aaron, and Tzipporah. At the Red Sea, they discover that a vengeful Rameses is pursuing them with his army, intent on killing them. However, a writhing pillar of fire blocks the army's way, while Moses uses his staff to part the sea. The Hebrews cross the open sea bottom; the fire vanishes and the army gives chase, but the water closes over and drowns the Egyptian soldiers, sparing Rameses alone. Moses sadly bids farewell to his brother and leads the Hebrews to Mount Sinai, where he receives the Ten Commandments.
Cast[edit]
Val Kilmer as Moses, a Hebrew who was adopted by Pharaoh Seti.
Val Kilmer also provides the uncredited voice of God
Amick Byram provides Moses' singing voice.
Ralph Fiennes as Rameses, Moses' adoptive brother and eventual successor to his father Seti.
Michelle Pfeiffer as Tzipporah, Jethro's oldest daughter and Moses' wife.
Sandra Bullock as Miriam, Moses and Aaron's biological sister.
Sally Dworsky provides Miriam's singing voice.
Eden Riegel provides the voice of a younger Miriam.
Jeff Goldblum as Aaron, Moses and Miriam's biological brother.
Danny Glover as Jethro, Tzipporah's father and Midian's high priest.
Brian Stokes Mitchell provides Jethro's singing voice.
Patrick Stewart as Seti, Rameses' father, Moses' adoptive father and the first Pharaoh in the film.
Helen Mirren as Queen Tuya, Seti's consort, Rameses' mother, and Moses' adoptive mother.
Linda Dee Shayne provides Queen Tuya's singing voice.
Steve Martin as Hotep, one of the high priests who serves as advisor to Seti, and later Rameses.
Martin Short as Huy, Hotep's fellow high priest.
Ofra Haza as Yocheved, the biological mother of Miriam, Aaron, and Moses. She also sang her character's number, "Deliver Us", in seventeen other languages for the film's dubbing[7])
Bobby Motown as Ramses' son
Director Brenda Chapman briefly voiced Miriam when she sings the lullaby to Moses. The vocals had been recorded for a scratch audio track, which was intended to be replaced later by Sally Dworsky. The track turned out so well that it remained in the film.
Production[edit]
Development[edit]
Former Disney chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg had always wanted to do an animated adaptation of The Ten Commandments. While working for The Walt Disney Company, Katzenberg suggested this idea to Michael Eisner, but he refused. The idea for the film was brought back at the formation of DreamWorks SKG in 1994, when Katzenberg's partners, Amblin Entertainment founder Steven Spielberg, and music producer David Geffen, were meeting in Spielberg's living room.[8] Katzenberg recalls that Spielberg looked at him during the meeting and said, "You ought to do The Ten Commandments."[8]
The Prince of Egypt was "written" throughout the story process. Beginning with a starting outline, Story Supervisors Kelly Asbury and Lorna Cook led a team of fourteen storyboard artists and writers as they sketched out the entire film — sequence by sequence. Once the storyboards were approved, they were put into the Avid Media Composer digital editing system by editor Nick Fletcher to create a "story reel" or animatic. The story reel allowed the filmmakers to view and edit the entire film in continuity before production began, and also helped the layout and animation departments understand what is happening in each sequence of the film.[9] After casting of the voice talent concluded, dialogue recording sessions began. For the film, the actors record individually in a studio under guidance by one of the three directors. The voice tracks were to become the primary aspect as to which the animators built their performances.[9] Because DreamWorks was concerned about theological accuracy, Jeffrey Katzenberg decided to call in Biblical scholars, Christian, Jewish and Muslim theologians, and Arab American leaders to help his film be more accurate and faithful to the original story. After previewing the developing film, all these leaders noted that the studio executives listened and responded to their ideas, and praised the studio for reaching out for comment from outside sources.[8]
Design and animation[edit]
Art directors Kathy Altieri and Richard Chavez and Production Designer Darek Gogol led a team of nine visual development artists in setting a visual style for the film that was representative of the time, the scale and the architectural style of Ancient Egypt.[9] Part of the process also included the research and collection of artwork from various artists, as well as taking part in trips such as a two-week travel across Egypt by the filmmakers before the film's production began.[9]
Character Designers Carter Goodrich, Carlos Grangel and Nicolas Marlet worked on setting the design and overall look of the characters. Drawing on various inspirations for the widely known characters, the team of character designers worked on designs that had a more realistic feel than the usual animated characters up to that time.[9] Both character design and art direction worked to set a definite distinction between the symmetrical, more angular look of the Egyptians versus the more organic, natural look of the Hebrews and their related environments.[9] The Backgrounds department, headed by supervisors Paul Lasaine and Ron Lukas, oversaw a team of artists who were responsible for painting the sets/backdrops from the layouts. Within the film, approximately 934 hand-painted backgrounds were created.[9]
The animation team for The Prince of Egypt, including 350 artists from 34 different nations, was primarily recruited both from Walt Disney Feature Animation,[10] which had fallen under Katzenberg's auspices while at The Walt Disney Company, and from Amblimation, a defunct division of Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment.[11] As at Disney's, character animators were grouped into teams by character: for example, Kristof Serrand, as the supervising animator of Older Moses, set the acting style of the character and assigned scenes to his team.[12] Consideration was given to properly depicting the ethnicities of the ancient Egyptians, Hebrews, and Nubians seen in the film.[13]
There are 1,192 scenes in the film, and 1,180 contain work done by the special effects department, which animates everything in an animated scene which is not a character: blowing wind, dust, rainwater, shadows, etc. A blend of traditional animation and computer-generated imagery was used in the depictions of the ten plagues of Egypt and the parting of the Red Sea.[8][14] The animated characters were digitally inked and painted using Cambridge Systems' Animo software system (now merged with Toon Boom),[15] and the compositing of the 2D and 3D elements was done using the "Exposure Tool", a digital solution developed for DreamWorks by Silicon Graphics.[14][16]
Creating the voice of God[edit]
The task of creating God's voice was given to Lon Bender and the team working with the film's music composer, Hans Zimmer.[17] "The challenge with that voice was to try to evolve it into something that had not been heard before," says Bender. "We did a lot of research into the voices that had been used for past Hollywood movies as well as for radio shows, and we were trying to create something that had never been previously heard not only from a casting standpoint but from a voice manipulation standpoint as well. The solution was to use the voice of actor Val Kilmer to suggest the kind of voice we hear inside our own heads in our everyday lives, as opposed to the larger than life tones with which God has been endowed in prior cinematic incarnations."[17]
Music[edit]
See also: The Prince of Egypt (soundtrack)
Composer and lyricist Stephen Schwartz began working on writing songs for the film from the beginning of the film's production. As the story evolved, he continued to write songs that would serve both to entertain and help move the story along. Composer Hans Zimmer arranged and produced the songs and then eventually wrote the film's score. The film's score was recorded entirely in London, England.[9]
Three soundtrack albums were released simultaneously for The Prince of Egypt, each of them aimed towards a different target audience. While the other two accompanying records, the country-themed "Nashville" soundtrack and the gospel-based "Inspirational" soundtrack, functioned as film tributes, the official The Prince of Egypt soundtrack contained the actual songs from the film.[18] This album combines elements from the score composed by Hans Zimmer and film songs by Stephen Schwartz.[18] The songs were either voiced over by professional singers (such as Salisbury Cathedral Choir), or sung by the film's voice actors, such as Michelle Pfeiffer and Ofra Haza. Various tracks by contemporary artists such as K-Ci & JoJo and Boyz II Men were added, including the Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston duet "When You Believe", a Babyface rewrite of the original Schwartz composition, sung by Michelle Pfeiffer and Sally Dworsky in the film.
Musical numbers[edit]
"Deliver Us" – Ofra Haza, Eden Riegel, and Chorus
"River Lullaby" - Brenda Chapman
"All I Ever Wanted" – Amick Byram
"All I Ever Wanted (Queen's Reprise)" – Linda Dee Shayne
"Through Heaven's Eyes" – Brian Stokes Mitchell
"Playing with the Big Boys" – Steve Martin and Martin Short
"The Plagues" – Byram, Ralph Fiennes, and Chorus
"When You Believe" – Sally Dworsky, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Chorus
Release[edit]
The Prince of Egypt had its premiere at the UCLA's Royce Hall on December 16, 1998,[1] with its wide release occurring two days later.[4] Despite being the inaugural production by DreamWorks Animation, it wound up the second to get a theatrical release, as Antz was rushed to reach theatres in September.[19] The international release occurred simultaneously to the United States, as according to DreamWorks' distribution chief Jim Tharp, opening one week prior to the "global holiday" of Christmas, audiences all over the world would be available at the same time.[20]
The accompanying marketing campaign aimed to bring more adults, usually averse to animated films. Merchandising was limited to a line of collectible figures and books.[21] Wal-Mart served as a promotional partner and offered in stores a package featuring two tickets to The Prince of Egypt, a storybook and the film's soundtrack.[22]
Home media[edit]
The Prince of Egypt was released on DVD and VHS on September 14, 1999.[23] The ownership of the film was assumed by DreamWorks Animation when that company split from DreamWorks Pictures in 2004; (As of 2017, the rights to the film are now owned by Universal Studios via its acquisition of DWA.) as with the rest of the DreamWorks Animation catalog, it is available for streaming on Netflix in HD.[24] However, both the DVD release and the streaming versions used a 35mm print of the film, rather than using the original files to encode the movie directly to digital.
Reception[edit]
Box office performance[edit]
On its opening weekend, the film grossed $14.5 million for a $4,658 average from 3,118 theaters, earning second place at the box office, behind You've Got Mail. Due to the holiday season, the film gained 4% in its second weekend, earning $15.1 million and finishing in fourth place. It had a $4,698 average from 3,218 theaters. It would hold well in its third weekend, with only a 25% drop to $11,244,612 for a $3,511 average from 3,202 theaters and once again finishing in fourth place. The film closed on May 27, 1999 after earning $101.4 million in the United States and Canada with an additional $117.2 million overseas for a worldwide total of $218.6 million. The Prince of Egypt was the second non-Disney animated feature to gross over $100 million in the U.S. after Paramount/Nickelodeon's The Rugrats Movie. It remained the top-grossing non-Disney animated film until being surpassed by the 2000 stop-motion film Chicken Run, also distributed by DreamWorks, and remained the highest-grossing traditionally animated non-Disney film until 2007, when it was out-grossed by 20th Century Fox's The Simpsons Movie.[25]
The Prince of Egypt box office revenue
Source
Gross (USD)
% Total
All Time Rank (Unadjusted)
United States & Canada $101.4 million[4] 46.4% 398[4]
Foreign $117.2 million[4] 53.6% –
Worldwide $218.6 million[4] 100.0% 319[4]
Critical reception[edit]
The film has a rating of 79% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 84 reviews, with a weighted average score of 7/10. The site's consensus reads, "The Prince of Egypt's stunning visuals and first-rate voice cast more than compensate for the fact that it's better crafted than it is emotionally involving."[26] Metacritic, which assigns a normalized 0–100 rating to reviews from mainstream critics, calculated an average score of 64 from the 26 reviews it collected.[27]
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times praised the film in his review saying, "The Prince of Egypt is one of the best-looking animated films ever made. It employs computer-generated animation as an aid to traditional techniques, rather than as a substitute for them, and we sense the touch of human artists in the vision behind the Egyptian monuments, the lonely desert vistas, the thrill of the chariot race, the personalities of the characters. This is a film that shows animation growing up and embracing more complex themes, instead of chaining itself in the category of children's entertainment."[28] Richard Corliss of Time magazine gave a negative review of the film saying, "The film lacks creative exuberance, any side pockets of joy."[29] Stephen Hunter from The Washington Post praised the film saying, "The movie's proudest accomplishment is that it revises our version of Moses toward something more immediate and believable, more humanly knowable."[30]
Lisa Alspector from the Chicago Reader praised the film and wrote, "The blend of animation techniques somehow demonstrates mastery modestly, while the special effects are nothing short of magnificent."[31] Houston Chronicle's Jeff Millar reviewed by saying, "The handsomely animated Prince of Egypt is an amalgam of Hollywood biblical epic, Broadway supermusical and nice Sunday school lesson."[32] James Berardinelli from Reelviews highly praised the film saying, "The animation in The Prince of Egypt is truly top-notch, and is easily a match for anything Disney has turned out in the last decade", and also wrote "this impressive achievement uncovers yet another chink in Disney's once-impregnable animation armor."[33] Liam Lacey of The Globe and Mail gave a somewhat negative review and wrote, "Prince of Egypt is spectacular but takes itself too seriously."[34] MovieGuide also reviewed the film favorably, saying that "The Prince of Egypt takes animated movies to a new level of entertainment. Magnificent art, music, story, and realization combine to make The Prince of Egypt one of the most entertaining masterpieces of all time."[35]
Censorship[edit]
The Prince of Egypt was banned in two countries where the population is predominantly Muslim: the Maldives and Malaysia, on the grounds that the depiction in the media of Islamic prophets (which includes Moses) is forbidden in Islam. The Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs in the Maldives stated: "All prophets and messengers of God are revered in Islam, and therefore cannot be portrayed".[36][37] Following this ruling, the censor board banned the film in January 1999. In the same month, the Film Censorship Board of Malaysia banned the film "so as not to offend the country's majority Muslim population." The board's secretary said that the censor body ruled the film was "insensitive for religious and moral reasons".[38]
Accolades[edit]
Award
Category
Recipient
Result
Academy Awards[39] Best Original Musical or Comedy Score Stephen Schwartz, Hans Zimmer Nominated
Best Original Song "When You Believe" (lyrics and music by Stephen Schwartz) Won
Annie Awards[40] Best Animated Feature Nominated
Individual Achievement in Directing Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner, and Simon Wells Nominated
Individual Achievement in Storyboarding Lorna Cook (Story supervisor) Nominated
Individual Achievement in Effects Animation Jamie Lloyd (Effects Lead — Burning Bush/Angel of Death) Nominated
Individual Achievement in Voice Acting Ralph Fiennes ("Rameses") Nominated
Critics Choice Awards[41] Best Animated Feature Won (tie with A Bug's Life)
Golden Globe Awards[42] Best Original Score Stephen Schwartz, Hans Zimmer Nominated
Best Original Song "When You Believe" Nominated
Grammy Awards[43] Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or Television Nominated
Best Soundtrack Album The Prince of Egypt: Music from the Motion Picture Nominated
Satellite Award[44] Best Animated or Mixed Media Feature Nominated

The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists:
2004: AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs:
"The Prince of Egypt (When You Believe)" – Nominated[45]
Prequel[edit]
Main article: Joseph: King of Dreams
In November 2000, DreamWorks Animation released Joseph: King of Dreams, a direct-to-video prequel based on the story of Joseph from the Book of Genesis. The project began during production of The Prince of Egypt, employing some of the same animation crew and featuring director Steve Hickner as an executive producer.[46][47]
Stage Musical[edit]
The Prince of Egypt will debut at TheatreWorks in Palo Alto, California on Oct 14, 2017. The show will have an international premiere on April 6, 2018 in Denmark at the Fredericia Teater.[48]
See also[edit]
List of films featuring slavery
Notes[edit]
^ In July 2014, the film's distribution rights were purchased by DreamWorks Animation.[49]
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Alexander McCall Smith
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Alexander McCall Smith
Born
R. Alexander McCall Smith
(1948-08-24) 24 August 1948 (age 69)
Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe)
Occupation
Writer, professor
Nationality
British
Citizenship
United Kingdom
Education
Christian Brothers College, Bulawayo
Alma mater
University of Edinburgh
Genre
Fiction, Crime fiction, Children's books, Academic non-fiction
Alexander McCall Smith's voice
Recorded January 2010 from the BBC Radio 4 programme Bookclub
Website
www.alexandermccallsmith.co.uk
R. Alexander "Sandy" McCall Smith, CBE, FRSE (born 24 August 1948), is a British writer and Emeritus Professor of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh. 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.
He has since become internationally known as a writer of fiction, with sales of English-language versions exceeding 40 million by 2010 and translations into 46 languages.[1] He is most widely known as the creator of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series.[1][2] "McCall" is not a middle name: his two-part surname is "McCall Smith".[3][4]
Contents
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1 Early life
2 Professional career
3 Personal life
4 Author
5 Bibliography
5.1 The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series
5.2 44 Scotland Street series
5.3 The Sunday Philosophy Club series
5.4 Corduroy Mansions series
5.5 Professor Dr von Igelfeld Entertainments series
5.6 Other novels
5.7 Short stories
5.7.1 Anthologies
5.8 Children's novels
5.8.1 School Ship Tobermory
5.8.2 Akimbo
5.8.3 Harriet Bean
5.8.4 Max & Maddy
5.8.5 Young Precious Ramotswe
5.9 Academic texts
6 See also
7 References
8 External links
Early life[edit]
Alexander McCall Smith was born in Bulawayo in 1948 in the British colony of Southern Rhodesia (present-day Zimbabwe), the youngest of four children.[5] His father worked as a public prosecutor in Bulawayo.[6] McCall Smith was educated at the Christian Brothers College in Bulawayo before moving to Scotland at age 17 to study law at the University of Edinburgh, where he earned his PhD in law.[5][7] 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 won in the children's category.[6]
Professional career[edit]
He returned to southern Africa in 1981 to help co-found the law school and teach law at the University of Botswana.[5] While there, he co-wrote The Criminal Law of Botswana (1992).[8]
He was Professor of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh and is now Emeritus Professor at its School of Law. He retains a further involvement with the University in relation to the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
He is the former chairman of the Ethics Committee of the British Medical Journal (until 2002), the former vice-chairman of the Human Genetics Commission of the United Kingdom, and a former member of the International Bioethics Committee of UNESCO. After achieving success as a writer, he gave up these commitments. He was appointed a CBE in the New Year's Honours List issued at the end of December 2006 for services to literature.[9] In June 2007, he was awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws at a ceremony celebrating the tercentenary of the University of Edinburgh School of Law. In June 2015 he was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters at a graduation ceremony at the University of St Andrews.
Personal life[edit]
He settled in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1984. He and his wife Elizabeth, a physician, bought a Victorian mansion that they renovated and restored, raising their two daughters Lucy and Emily, who attended the independent St George's School for Girls in the city. They lived in the same home in 2010.[1] In the Merchiston area of Edinburgh, he lives close to the authors J. K. Rowling, Ian Rankin and Kate Atkinson.[1][10]
An amateur bassoonist, he co-founded The Really Terrible Orchestra. He has helped to found Botswana's first centre for opera training, the Number 1 Ladies' Opera House,[11] for whom he wrote the libretto of their first production, a version of Macbeth set among a troop of baboons in the Okavango Delta.[12][13]
He is the author of a testimonial in The Future of the NHS (2006).[14]
In 2014, McCall Smith purchased the Cairns of Coll, a remote, uninhabited chain of islets in the Hebrides. He said, "I intend to do absolutely nothing with them, and to ensure that, after I am gone, they are held in trust, unspoilt and uninhabited, for the nation. I want them kept in perpetuity as a sanctuary for wildlife – for birds and seals and all the other creatures to which they are home.” [15]
Author[edit]
Alexander McCall Smith signing books in Helsinki April 2007
McCall Smith is a prolific author of fiction, with several series to his credit. He writes at a prodigious rate: "Even when travelling, he never loses a day, turning out between 2,000 and 3,000 words [a day] – but more like 5,000 words when at home in Edinburgh. His usual rate is 1,000 words an hour."[2] He has gained the most fame for his No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series, featuring Mma Precious Ramotswe and Gaborone, Botswana. The first novel was published in 1998. In 2009, the success of that series was described in The Telegraph: "the staggering success of his Botswanan novels in the No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series – they have sold more than 20 million copies in English editions alone and been translated into 40 languages".[2] A further description of his readers, his fans is in strong words: "To say McCall Smith is a literary phenomenon doesn’t quite describe what has happened. He has become more of a movement, a worldwide club for the dissemination of gentle wisdom and good cheer."[2]
According to his publisher in Edinburgh, Polygon (an imprint of Birlinn Books), "He was, until 2005, a professor of medical law at the University of Edinburgh, but gave up the position to concentrate on his writing and now writes full time."[16]
He published 30 books in the 1980s and 1990s before he began the series that has brought him the world's notice.[1] In 2008 he wrote a serialized online novel Corduroy Mansions, with the audio edition read by Andrew Sachs made available at the same pace as the daily publication. He wrote more than ten chapters ahead of publication, finding the experience of serialized publication to be "a frightening thing to create a novel while his readers watched. 'I am like a man on a tightrope.'"[2]
In 2009 he donated the short story Still Life to Oxfam's "Ox-Tales" project, comprising four collections of stories written by 38 British authors. McCall Smith's story was published in the "Air" collection.[17]
Bibliography[edit]
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series[edit]
1998: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
2000: Tears of the Giraffe
2001: Morality for Beautiful Girls
2002: The Kalahari Typing School for Men
2003: The Full Cupboard of Life
2004: In the Company of Cheerful Ladies (also known as: The Night-Time Dancer)
2006: Blue Shoes and Happiness
2007: The Good Husband of Zebra Drive
2008: The Miracle at Speedy Motors
2009: Tea Time for the Traditionally Built
2010: The Double Comfort Safari Club
2011: The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party
2012: The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection
2013: The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon
2014: The Handsome Man's De Luxe Café
2015: The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine
2016: Precious and Grace
2017: The House of Unexpected Sisters
44 Scotland Street series[edit]
2005: 44 Scotland Street
2005: Espresso Tales
2006: Love Over Scotland
2007: The World According to Bertie
2008: The Unbearable Lightness of Scones
2010: The Importance of Being Seven
2011: Bertie Plays The Blues
2012: Sunshine on Scotland Street
2013: Bertie's Guide to Life and Mothers
2015: The Revolving Door of Life
2016: The Bertie Project
2017: A Time of Love and Tartan
The Sunday Philosophy Club series[edit]
also known as Isabel Dalhousie Mysteries
2004: The Sunday Philosophy Club
2005: Friends, Lovers, Chocolate
2006: The Right Attitude to Rain
2007: The Careful Use of Compliments
2008: The Comfort of Saturdays (UK title) or: The Comforts of a Muddy Saturday (American title)
2009: The Lost Art of Gratitude
2010: The Charming Quirks of Others
2011: The Forgotten Affairs of Youth
2012: The Uncommon Appeal of Clouds (released 23 Oct 2012 in UK)
2015: The Novel Habits of Happiness
2017: A Distant View of Everything (released 23 Mar 2017 in UK)
Corduroy Mansions series[edit]
2009: Corduroy Mansions
2009: The Dog Who Came in from the Cold (published online daily in serial form; also published as a hardcover book on 1 May 2010)
2011: A Conspiracy of Friends
Professor Dr von Igelfeld Entertainments series[edit]
1997: Portuguese Irregular Verbs [18]
2003: The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs
2003: At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances
2004: The 2½ Pillars of Wisdom – An omnibus edition of the first three von Igelfeld titles
2011: Unusual Uses for Olive Oil
Other novels[edit]
2008: La's Orchestra Saves the World
2012: Trains and Lovers
2014: The Forever Girl
2014: Fatty O'Leary's Dinner Party
2015: Emma: A Modern Retelling
2016: My Italian Bulldozer
2017: The Good Pilot, Peter Woodhouse
Short stories[edit]
2011: "The Strange Story of Bobby Box" (published in the young adult anthology: What You Wish For)
Anthologies[edit]
1991: Children of Wax: African Folk Tales
1995: Heavenly Date and Other Flirtations
2004: The Girl Who Married a Lion and Other Tales from Africa
2015: Chance Developments: Unexpected Love Stories
2016: Baboons Who Went This Way and That (Tales from Africa)
Children's novels[edit]
1980: The White Hippo
1984: The Perfect Hamburger
1988: Alix and the Tigers
1990: The Tin Dog
1991: Calculator Annie
1991: The Popcorn Pirates
1992: The Doughnut Ring
1994: Paddy and the Ratcatcher
1995: The Muscle Machine
1996: The Bubblegum Tree
1997: The Five Lost Aunts of Harriet Bean
2000: Teacher Trouble
2006: Dream Angus
2016: Freddie Mole, Lion Tamer
2018: Hari and his Electric Feet
2018: Max Champion and the Great Race Car Robbery
School Ship Tobermory[edit]
2015: School Ship Tobermory
2016: The Sands of Shark Island
2018: The Race to Kangaroo Cliff
Akimbo[edit]
1992: Akimbo and the Lions
1993: Akimbo and the Crocodile Man
2005: Akimbo and the Elephants
2006: Akimbo and the Snakes
2008: Akimbo and the Baboons
Harriet Bean[edit]
1993: The Cowgirl Aunt of Harriet Bean
1990: The Five Lost Aunts of Harriet Bean
1991: Harriet Bean and the League of Cheats
Max & Maddy[edit]
1997: Max & Maddy and the Bursting Balloons Mystery
1999: Max & Maddy and the Chocolate Money Mystery
Young Precious Ramotswe[edit]
2010: Precious and the Puggies[19] (republished in 2011 as: Precious and the Monkeys)
2012: Precious and the Mystery of Meerkat Hill
2012: The Great Cake Mystery
2013: Precious and the Missing Lion
2015: Precious and the Zebra Necklace
Academic texts[edit]
1978: Power and Manoeuvrability (with Tony Carty)
1983: Law and Medical Ethics (with J. Kenyon Mason) (this text has gone through several editions: an eighth, by Mason and Graeme Laurie, was published in 2010; McCall Smith contributed to the first six editions)
1987: Butterworths Medico-Legal Encyclopaedia (with J. Kenyon Mason)
1990: Family Rights: Family Law and Medical Advances (with Elaine Sutherland)
1991: All About Drink and Drug Abuse (educational text)
1992: The Criminal Law of Botswana (with Kwame Frimpong)
1993: The Duty to Rescue (with Michael Menlowe, 1993)
1992: Scots Criminal Law (with David H Sheldon, second edition published 1997)
1997: Forensic Aspects of Sleep (with Colin Shapiro)
2000: Justice and the Prosecution of Old Crimes (with Daniel W. Shuman)
2001: Errors, Medicine and the Law (with Alan Merry)
2003: A Draft Criminal Code for Scotland (with Eric Clive, Pamela Ferguson and Christopher Gane)
2004: Creating Humans: Ethical Questions where Reproduction and Science Collide (collected lectures, audio recordings)
See also[edit]
Children's literature portal
White people in Zimbabwe
References[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b c d e Philby, Charlotte (19 June 2010). "Alexander McCall Smith: The No1 novelist's guide to Edinburgh". The Independent. Retrieved 26 August 2012.
^ Jump up to: a b c d e Grice, Elizabeth (13 March 2009). "Alexander McCall Smith talks about 'Corduroy Mansions' – interview". The Telegraph. Retrieved 15 October 2013. To say McCall Smith is a literary phenomenon doesn't quite describe what has happened.
Jump up ^ McCall Smith, Alexander. "A. McCall Smith (McCallSmith) on Twitter". Twitter.com. Twitter.com. Retrieved 15 October 2013.
Jump up ^ "McCall Smith praises inspiration of islands". The Herald Scotland. 13 October 2013. Retrieved 15 October 2013.
^ Jump up to: a b c "Alexander McCall Smith: Reader's Guide" (PDF). Just Buffalo Literary Center. Buffalo, New York. 2012. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
^ Jump up to: a b Hunter, Jeffrey W. (2009). Contemporary Literary Criticism. Detroit, Michigan: Gale. ISBN 978-1-4144-1944-2.
Jump up ^ Nicoll, Ruaridh (2 May 2004). "Handy Sandy". The Observer. Retrieved 12 May 2008.
Jump up ^ Frimpong, Kwame; McCall Smith, Alexander (1992). The Criminal Law of Botswana. South Africa: Juta Publishers. ISBN 978-0702126703. Retrieved 28 June 2016.
Jump up ^ "New Year Honours—United Kingdom". The London Gazette. 29 December 2006. Retrieved 3 January 2009. [dead link]
Jump up ^ Rankin, Ian. "Alexander McCall Smith". No. 1 Magazine, Scotland's Glamorous Glossy. Archived from the original on 1 March 2014. Retrieved 24 February 2014.
Jump up ^ "Unknown". Times. (Subscription required (help)).
Jump up ^ AFP news report on the "Okavango Macbeth" on YouTube
Jump up ^ "The Okavango Macbeth". Goodmusic. 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2016.
Jump up ^ Tempest, Michelle (2006). The Future of the NHS. ISBN 1-85811-369-5. Retrieved 13 October 2015.
Jump up ^ "McCall Smith vows to give Cairns of Coll back". www.scotsman.com. Retrieved 2017-03-17.
Jump up ^ "Alexander McCall Smith". Birlinn. Retrieved 28 June 2016.
Jump up ^ Oxfam: Ox-Tales Archived 18 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine.
Jump up ^ Maclean Dubois; 1st Edition (1997) Retrieved 5 December 2012.
Jump up ^ Scots language translation by James Robertson
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The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (1998)
Tears of the Giraffe (2000)
Morality for Beautiful Girls (2001)
The Kalahari Typing School for Men (2002)
The Full Cupboard of Life (2003)
In the Company of Cheerful Ladies (2004)
Blue Shoes and Happiness (2006)
The Good Husband of Zebra Drive (2007)
The Miracle at Speedy Motors (2008)
Tea Time for the Traditionally Built (2009)
The Double Comfort Safari Club (2010)
The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party (2011)
The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection (2012)
The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon (2013)
The Handsome Man's De Luxe Café (2014)
The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine (2015)
Professor Dr von Igelfeld
Portuguese Irregular Verbs (1997)
The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs (2003)
At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances (2003)
The 2½ Pillars of Wisdom (2004)
Unusual Uses for Olive Oil (2011)
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The Sunday Philosophy Club (2004)
Friends, Lovers, Chocolate (2005)
The Right Attitude to Rain (2006)
The Careful Use of Compliments (2007)
The Comfort of Saturdays (2008)
The Lost Art of Gratitude (2009)
The Charming Quirks of Others (2010)
The Forgotten Affairs of Youth (2011)
The Uncommon Appeal of Clouds (2012)
44 Scotland Street
44 Scotland Street (2004)
Espresso Tales (2005)
Love Over Scotland (2006)
The World According to Bertie (2007)
The Unbearable Lightness of Scones (2008)
The Importance of Being Seven (2010)
Bertie Plays the Blues (2011)
Sunshine on Scotland Street (2012)
Bertie's Guide to Life and Mothers (2013)
The Revolving Door of Life (2015)
The Bertie Project (2016)
A Time of Love and Tartan (2017)
Corduroy Mansions
Corduroy Mansions (2009)
The Dog Who Came in from the Cold (2010)
A Conspiracy of Friends (2011)
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The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (2008)
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