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gptkbp:instanceOf
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Person
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gptkbp:activeYears
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1980-present
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gptkbp:almaMater
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gptkb:University_of_Edinburgh
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gptkbp:awards
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O.B.E.
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gptkbp:birthDate
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1942-08-24
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gptkbp:birthPlace
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gptkb:Bulawayo
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gptkbp:children
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2
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gptkbp:field
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Literature
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gptkbp:genre
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Fiction
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https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
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George A. McCall Smith
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gptkbp:influenced
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Contemporary Literature
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gptkbp:influencedBy
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gptkb:Daphne_du_Maurier
gptkb:Agatha_Christie
gptkb:David_Mitchell
gptkb:Ali_Smith
gptkb:Arthur_Conan_Doyle
gptkb:F._Scott_Fitzgerald
gptkb:J.K._Rowling
gptkb:Julian_Barnes
gptkb:Kazuo_Ishiguro
gptkb:Margaret_Atwood
gptkb:Mark_Twain
gptkb:Neil_Gaiman
gptkb:Virginia_Woolf
gptkb:Zadie_Smith
gptkb:Gabriel_Garcia_Marquez
gptkb:Philip_Pullman
gptkb:A.S._Byatt
gptkb:Charles_Dickens
gptkb:Chimamanda_Ngozi_Adichie
gptkb:Ernest_Hemingway
gptkb:George_Orwell
gptkb:Salman_Rushdie
gptkb:Sarah_Waters
gptkb:Hilary_Mantel
gptkb:Jane_Austen
gptkb:Harper_Lee
gptkb:Jeanette_Winterson
gptkb:Ian_McEwan
gptkb:Alexander_McCall_Smith
gptkb:John_Banville
gptkb:William_Somerset_Maugham
P.G. Wodehouse
Toni Morrison
Leo Tolstoy
Colm Toibin
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gptkbp:involvedIn
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Education
Law
Philosophy
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gptkbp:knownFor
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Creating memorable characters
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gptkbp:language
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English
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gptkbp:nationality
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Scottish
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gptkbp:notableWork
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The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
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gptkbp:occupation
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Novelist
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gptkbp:residence
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gptkb:Edinburgh
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gptkbp:series
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The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
44 Scotland Street
Corduroy Mansions
Isabel_Dalhousie
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gptkbp:spouse
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gptkb:Elizabeth_McCall_Smith
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gptkbp:website
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www.mccallsmith.com
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gptkbp:wrote
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Humorous
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