This final volume from Mankell—the Swedish dramatist, theater director, and creator of the bestselling Kurt Wallander novels (and many other books)—includes 67 short essays written in the last two ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Want to read something cold and dark on a hot summer day? We’ve got recommendations. By Tina Jordan and Marilyn Stasio Tales of Michael Connelly’s Harry Bosch and Lee Child’s Jack Reacher; Henning ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The death this week of the Swedish writer Henning Mankell robs crime fiction of one of its finest mavericks. If anything, Mankell's ...

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 ...

An Interview with Henning Mankell "Western Apathy Towards Africa Keeps Me Awake at Night" Swedish best-selling mystery author and longtime Africa resident Henning Mankell, 56, discusses the anatomy of ...

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This is a curious case. Written in 2001, and only just published in Britain, The Shadow Girls is absolutely, categorically, not a novel about the gloomy Swedish detective Kurt Wallander. Nor is it a ...

Author Henning Mankell on Gaza Convoy Raid 'First It Was Piracy, and Then It Was Kidnapping' Bestselling Swedish author Henning Mankell was on the aid convoy that was raided last week by Israeli ...