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Alexander McCall Smith’s diary: Meeting Babar’s creator

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8 February 2014

9:00 AM

8 February 2014

9:00 AM

As any author will tell you, literary festivals differ widely. If you are invited to Willy Dalrymple’s Jaipur Festival, with its renowned final party, you say yes within minutes of receiving the invitation. Other invitations you might take a little longer to accept.

The Key West Literary Seminar, which took place a couple of weeks ago, is one of the glamorous ones.

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Alexander McCall Smith is the author of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series — and of The Forever Girl, out this week.

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