As they worked to catch a killer who had to be stopped before he could kill again, the team often worked late into the nights in a heightened atmosphere of tension and crisis. Wallander was a fictional detective living in Ystad in southern Sweden, who supervised a squad of detectives in solving murders, some of which were bizarre. įrom 1991 to 2013, Mankell wrote the books which made him famous worldwide, the Kurt Wallander mystery novels. When his success as a writer made it possible, he founded and ran a theatre in Mozambique. Africa would later become a second home to him, and he spent a big part of his life there. He used the proceeds from the novel to travel to Guinea-Bissau. In 1973, he published The Stone Blaster, a novel about the Swedish labour movement. His first play, The Amusement Park dealt with Swedish colonialism in South America. In the following years he collaborated with several theatres in Sweden. At the age of 20, he had already started as author at the National Swedish Touring Theatre in Stockholm. He later returned to work as a stagehand in Stockholm. He took part in the student uprising of 1968. In 1966, he returned to Paris to become a writer. Shortly afterwards he joined the merchant marine, working on a cargo ship and he "loved the ship's decent hard-working community". After three years he dropped out of school and went to Paris when he was 16. Later, when Mankell was thirteen, the family moved to Borås, Västergötland on the Swedish west coast near Gothenburg. In Sveg, a museum was built in his honour during his lifetime. In the biography on Mankell's website, he describes this time when they lived in a flat above the court as one of the happiest in his life. The family first lived in Sveg, Härjedalen in northern Sweden, where Mankell's father was a district judge. He and an older sister lived with his father for most of their childhood. His father Ivar was a lawyer who divorced his mother when Mankell was one year old. Mankell was born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1948. Mankell's grandfather, also named Henning Mankell, lived from 1868 to 1930 and was a composer. He made considerable donations to charity organizations, mostly connected to Africa. Mankell shared his time between Sweden and countries in Africa, mostly Mozambique where he started a theatre. He was below deck on the MV Mavi Marmara when nine civilians were killed in international waters. In 2010, Mankell was on board one of the ships in the Gaza Freedom Flotilla that was boarded by Israeli commandos. In his books and plays he constantly highlighted social inequality issues and injustices in Sweden and abroad. He was a left-wing social critic and activist. He also wrote a number of plays and screenplays for television. Henning Georg Mankell ( Swedish pronunciation: 3 February 1948 – 5 October 2015) was 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.
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