Henning Mankell

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A small town outside of Malmö in the southern province of Skåne.

About the Author, Henning Mankell

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Official Biography
Henning Mankell was born in Sweden in 1948. In the 1970s he began working as a dramatist and in 1973 his first novel was published. Since then he has gone on to become the true star of Scandinavian crime the world over. Mankell is a successful author of plays, children's books and several novels for adults. But it is as the prize-winning author of the eight 'Kurt Wallander Mysteries' that he is best known. The Kurt Wallander Mysteries has now sold more than 10 million copies worldwide and has been published to great critical acclaim in both the UK and America.

Mankell divides his time between Sweden and Maputo, Mozambique, where he works as a director at Teatro Avenida. He is passionately committed to the fight against AIDS in Africa and spends much time working to encourage support for his 'Memory Books' project to raise awareness of the problem.

Contact Henning Mankell
To contact the author, you may send postal mail to his publishers in the UK and they will forward it onwards.
The address is:

Henning Mankell
c/o Harvill & Vintage Publicity
Random House
20 Vauxhall Bridge Road
London SW1V 2SA

News & Interviews with Henning Mankell

Henning Mankell contributes 1.6 million Euros to SOS Children's Villages by Pelle Tagesson, 2007-Oct-16
Ingmar Bergman, to the end, a man of music by Henning Mankell for The Guardian, 2007-Aug-06
Henning Mankell's criminal mind by Vit Wagner for The Toronto Star, 2007-Dec-03
Words to live by by Carl Wilson for the Globe and Mail, 2007-Dec-26
Europeans Know of Death, not Life in Africa by Silke Bartlick for Deutsche Welle, 2007-Jan-28
Lofty Talk and Empty Promises for Spiegel Online, 2006-Sept-01
Interview with Henning Mankell by David Wiles for Scandinavian Insider (formerly South of Sweden), 2006-Sept
Literary 5 Interview [Real Audio format] by Gaby Katz for Radio Sweden, 2006-Mar-20
Swede's crime stories are cerebral by Carlin Romano for The Philadelphia Inquirer, 2006-July-02
Just what we need instead of miserable Morse... a gloomy Swedish detective by Alex Duval Smith and Rob Sharp for the Observer, 2006-July-02
Blowing hot and cold by Andrew Billen for The Times, 2006-Mar-25
Fragments of Truth interview by Marika Bratt for Bokia Magazine, 2005-June-15
"Western Apathy Towards Africa Keeps Me Awake at Night" interview with Spiegel Online, 2004-12-13
Murder in a Cold Climate by Margo Jefferson for The New York Times, 2002-Apr-14
True Crime - A Profile of Henning Mankell by Ian Thomson for the Guardian Unlimited, 2003-Nov-01
'She was so full of life, spirits, energy' by Sean French for the Guardian Unlimited, 2003-Sept-14
The Mirror of Crime interview by Bob Cornwell, 2001-Oct-31
Henning Mankell and Håkan Nesser by Laurie Thompson at the Swedish Book Review
Inspector Norse... by Nicci Gerrard for the Guardian Unlimited, 2003-Mar-02
All along the watchtower by Nick Hasted for the Guardian Unlimited, 2002-Jan-12
Why I love... Henning Mankell by Mark Lawson for the Guardian Unlimited, 2003-July-17
Waves of modernity by Julian Evans for the Guardian Unlimited, 2002-Aug-03
Third helpings by John Lanchester for the Guardian Unlimited, 2002-Dec-14
Books for children for the Guardian Unlimited, 2000-May-02
Front Row BBC Radio 4 interview by Mark Lawson, 2002-10-01
The rich language of death is universal by A N Wilson for The Telegraph, 2003-Mar-24

Events and Public Appearances

Summer 2004, New York and Boston with summary and photos

About the Translators
Some information about the people who have translated Mankell's novels into other languages is collected on this page.