Those of us lucky enough not to be fighting simply to exist have a responsibility to change the world, argues the late crime novelist in this moving collection of his final thoughts and personal ...

The Swedish writer Henning Mankell's new novel, The Troubled Man, is another installment of his long-running series about Kurt Wallander, a police detective who works in the southernmost part of ...

In July and August World Book Clubs, there's another chance to hear two of our most popular programmes of recent times with Scandanavian superstar crime-writers Henning Mankell and Jo Nesbo. Last year ...

That's it then; the end. Twenty-two years after his first appearance and more than a decade since the one everybody - even his creator - had assumed would be his last, Inspector Kurt Wallander is ...

It’s not easy for an author to catch on across borders, but Swedish crime novelist Henning Mankell did it, all on the strength of a single character. Although Mankell wrote novels and plays about many ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Swedish author Henning Mankell gestures during a news conference in Berlin June 3, 2010. REUTERS/Tobias Schwarz STOCKHOLM (Reuters ...

The author Henning Mankell, who died Monday at 67 from lung cancer, came up with the idea for Kurt Wallander after he returned to Sweden from Africa in the late 1980s and was shocked by the racism he ...

Henning Mankell, the internationally renowned Swedish crime writer whose books about the gloomy, soul-searching police inspector Kurt Wallander enticed readers around the world, died early Monday, his ...

Henning Mankell stands on the patio of his house, hands in his pockets, enjoying the view. The writer lives on a hillside village about 40 minutes' drive south of Gothenburg. The view across the sea ...

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It’s a dismal day in Antibes. Outside in the town square, the rain is bucketing down. Inside the café where I’m to meet the author Henning Mankell, steam rises from people’s shoulders as they sit ...