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
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historical kingdoms way
Shakespeare is in many ways an African writer and 'Hamlet' would be seen as a very accurate historical saga about an African kingdom.
coffee police-work police
Police work wouldn't be possible without coffee.
wind humanity listening
Many words will be written on the wind and the sand, or end up in some obscure digital vault. But the storytelling will go on until the last human being stops listening. Then we can send the great chronicle of humanity out into the endless universe.
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.
writing night sky
It was a clear, starry night, dead calm. Whenever I see a sky like that, I wish I could write music
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.
dream men animal
It struck me as I listened to those two men that a truer nomination (name) for our species than Homo sapiens might be Homo narrans, the storytelling person. What differentiates us from animals is the fact that we can listen to other people’s dreams, fears, joys, sorrows, desires and defeats–and they in turn can listen to ours.
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.
wise people form
Novels are . . . an unsurpassed form to understand people.
coffee police-work silence
Police work wouldn't be possible without coffee," Wallander said. "No work would be possible without coffee." They pondered the importance of coffee in silence.
evil details
The evil always comes from details.