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Article: In the footsteps of a literary giant Author of the famous Chronicles Of Narnia, CS Lewis, is still a relatively unknown name, even in his native Belfast.Sandy Smith tells Alf McCreary how he is trying to raise the great writer's profile through a series of tours
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- Belfast Telegraph
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- September 14, 2007
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One of Lewis' best-known works is the The Lion, The Witch And The
Wardrobe, which was made into a film in 2005, and his
autobiographical Surprised By Joy was adapted for the highly
successful play and movie titled Shadowlands.
Despite his international eminence as a writer and scholar, CS
Lewis is still not a household name in his native land, in a way that
almost everyone knows about other famous Ulster figures such as
Seamus Heaney, Sir James Galway and George Best, and earlier names
like Harry Ferguson and John Dunlop.
"Many people in Belfast still have not heard about CS Lewis," says
Sandy Smith, who has been leading a series of weekend tours around
the author's native city. "However, ...