His crime novel series by Wallander has been translated into more than 40 languages - and this established the writer Henning Mankell as the most successful writers of Sweden since Strindberg. He died at the age of 67 in Gothenburg. This was announced by the Hanser Verlag.
Henning Mankell had publicly announced to be suffering from lung cancer. Mankell recently had published a book about his illness. In “quicksand – What it means to be a human being”, he wrote very personal about his life after the shattering diagnosis that he had received early 2014th In a column for the newspaper “Göteborgs Posten” he wrote: “I hear people say:” if “I am dying, but what the hell, it’s” when “I die – death is the only one whose we can be quite sure . ”
With 15 years of Mankell was born in 1948 left school and signed up as a sailor in the merchant marine to. In 1966 he settled for one and a half years in Paris, two years later he began working as an assistant director at the Riks Theater in Stockholm. 1979 put Mankell with “The prison camp, which disappeared” before his first novel.
But it was only in the nineties, he created the character that earned him the literary breakthrough: Kurt Wallander, a melancholy loner tend. “Wallander is like you and me, it changes,” Mankell said in 1999 the SPIEGEL. From his detective stories about the many investigators were also filmed. Born in 1948, Mankell lived in Sweden and Mozambique. Lifelong used Mankell a deep interest in Africa, which he worked in social novels and thrillers such as the bestseller “Kennedy’s Brain”. In addition, the author committed against poverty and illiteracy in Africa.
In solidarity showed the convinced socialists with the Palestinians -for his attitude towards Israel, he was publicly partially heavily criticized. The judge’s son, who film director Ingmar Bergman was married to Eva Bergman, a subsidiary of , belonged 2010 on the passengers of a “Gaza flotilla” that Israeli soldiers stopped a bloody use.
According to Hanser Verlag Mankell’s work has been translated into more than forty languages, it includes about 40 novels and numerous plays, his books reached a total circulation of over 40 million copies.
In Video: Henning Mankell in an interview (15.06.2010)
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