Henning Mankell (born 3 February 1948) is a Swedish crime writer, children's author and dramatist, best known for a series of mystery novels starring his most famous creation, Inspector Kurt Wallander. Read full biography of Henning Mankell →
Although I never marched through the streets shouting for Mao, I do believe that the liberation of China at the end of the 1940s was a wonderful... →
Africa was the most exotic place I could conceive of - the end of the world - and I knew I would go there one day.
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!
I'm not very much of a reader really, because I find much of it very bad, very uninteresting, very speculative.
My mother did what many men do. She left.
One of the agonies of being an author is to know when to stop writing.
When someone asks me to list the 10 best novels ever written, I always refuse to answer.
I am a very radical person - as radical now as I was when I was younger. So my books all have in common my search for understanding of the terrible... →
The wonderful Mozambican people have endured tremendous misery without losing their dignity and their positive outlook on life. Moreover, they have... →
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... →
As a writer, I am an intellectual. I believe in the ideals of the Enlightenment, I believe in the written word, in dialogue and in truth. I hate lies... →
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... →
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... →
Henning Mankell (born 3 February 1948) is a Swedish crime writer, children's author and dramatist, best known for a series of mystery novels starring his most famous creation, Inspector Kurt Wallander.