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
mother men left
My mother did what many men do. She left.
children mean problem
Certainly, I know what it's like to be obsessed. I haven't always been there for my children. They could reach me, but I wasn't always there. But, you know, that's not necessarily anything to do with being a writer. I mean, a taxi driver could have the same problem... Maybe.
world earth seeing
I do not understand how on earth you can become a writer without seeing the world.
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.
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.
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.
reader
I'm not very much of a reader really, because I find much of it very bad, very uninteresting, very speculative.
regret thinking giving
I think my Wallander stories give a fairly good image of the world in the 1990s. I don't regret anything about that - on the contrary!
lists answers novel
When someone asks me to list the 10 best novels ever written, I always refuse to answer.
moving animal europe
When I was a very young author, I knew I needed to build myself a tower outside of Europe. Like when you're a hunter, and build towers to watch the animals move. I knew I would never understand the world without that perspective. I came to Africa for that rational reason, although I love Mozambique now.
children believe enemy
Children get acquainted with each other in a special way, they do not make contracts as adults, they believe each other or not. Childish friendships often end in violence. You may become an enemy all of a sudden as well as notice that you are someone's best friend.
coffee police-work police
Police work wouldn't be possible without coffee.
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.