Henning Mankell
Henning Mankell
Henning Georg Mankellwas a Swedish crime writer, children's author, and dramatist, best known for a series of mystery novels starring his most noted creation, Inspector Kurt Wallander. He also wrote a number of plays and screenplays for television...
NationalitySwedish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth3 February 1948
CountrySweden
reader
I'm not very much of a reader really, because I find much of it very bad, very uninteresting, very speculative.
lists answers novel
When someone asks me to list the 10 best novels ever written, I always refuse to answer.
suicide morning mirrors
What annoys a person who suicides? The life itself. Boredom. Tiredness that descends on every morning when you look at yourself at the mirror.
humiliation polite
He was so excessively polite that Wallendar suspected he had endured many humiliations in his life.
world earth seeing
I do not understand how on earth you can become a writer without seeing the world.
wings bird shooting
We used to send whole flocks of birds shooting out of our mouths and never managed to grab them by their wings.
evil details
The evil always comes from details.
awful way different
I love Sherlock Holmes. There's still an awful lot to steal from Conan Doyle. But within a tradition you can work in many different ways.
cities organization village
Our exile organizations have been our way of replacing the cities and villages we have lost.
drive earn itself life lose luxurious money obviously secret small worry
It is obviously no secret that I earn a lot of money. But it is also no secret that I give most of it away. I don't live a luxurious life. I drive a small second-hand Fiat. I don't have to worry about money, which is itself a privilege. But I never had any anxiety that I would lose my identity.
author decided recall sensation taught
I decided to become an author when my grandmother taught me to write, when I was six. I can still recall the sensation of being able to turn words into stories. It was a miracle.
children critique forced furious ghastly lives orphans spend treatment
For me 'Oliver Twist' is a political novel. It is a furious critique of the treatment of orphans and poor children who were forced to spend their early lives in ghastly institutions.
based believe entirely people system
My father thought, and now I think too, that the system of democracy is entirely based upon the system of justice. If we do not have a system of justice that people believe in, the system of democracy will fail.
absolutely affair close happened russian scandals submarines supposed sweden swedish waters
I would say that during my lifetime, one of the worst political scandals in Sweden was absolutely what happened surrounding the affair of the submarines in Swedish waters in 1982, where there were supposed to be Russian submarines close to Stockholm. And the military of Sweden never got one up.