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	Inspector-Wallander.org, Kurt Wallander & Henning Mankell Fan Site
		Another sequel that could stand alone is Henning Mankell's Shadows in Twilight (Andersen Press £5.99, pp160), the follow-up to A Bridge to the Stars.
		Mankell's story always hovers on the edge of magical realism but he suggests there is no magic as powerful as the imagination of a melancholy child.
		The latest novel from Henning Mankell was released in Sweden at the end of September.
	www.inspector-wallander.org (2013 words)

	Henning Mankell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Henning Mankell (born February 3, 1948) is an internationally known Swedish author of crime fiction and other books, as well as plays.
		Mankell was born in Stockholm, and grew up in the Swedish towns of Sveg (Jämtland) and Borås (Västergötland).
		Mankell's father Ivar was a judge and his grandfather, also called Henning Mankell (1868-1930), was a composer.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henning_Mankell (328 words)

	Henning Mankell Books and Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Henning Mankell spends a great deal of his time in Africa and is deeply committed to the orphans of Africa and to helping all those affected by HIV and the AIDS epidemic.
		I Die, But the Memory Lives on is Henning Mankell's personal account of the Aids epidemic in Africa and tells not only of his experiences whilst working for Aids charities on the continent, but of his fears and anxieties for the sufferers.
		Henning Mankell was born in Sweden in 1948.
	www.shearersbookshop.com.au /feature/henningmankell.asp (456 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| By genre \| Interview: Henning Mankell
		Mankell's readers at home include the Prime Minister and half his cabinet, reflecting the popular concern his books articulate for a once-utopian society starting to rip with the stresses of inequality, immigration, racism and amoral violence.
		Mankell wrote Wallander's debut, Faceless Killers (1991), in direct response to the chaos he saw on returning to Sweden, after years in Mozambique, where he has continued a life-long, parallel stage career.
		Mankell's reverence for his boyhood informs the frequent theme of adults failing their children in his books - as in the painful scene in One Step Behind when a teenage girl runs from her killer to her childhood hiding place, and is slaughtered there, as Wallander sleeps.
	books.guardian.co.uk /departments/crime/story/0,6000,631288,00.html (923 words)

	Slavoj Zizek-Bibliography/Henning Mankell, the Artist of the Parallax View/Lacan Dot Com
		Henning Mankell's recent series of police procedurals set in the southern Swedish town of Ystad, with the inspector Kurt Wallander as their hero, is the exemplary case of the fate of the detective novel in our era of global capitalism.
		Mankell does not play the game of someone like Friedrich Duerenmatt who subverts the detective formula: Duerenmatt's novel starts as a detective story and then takes a non-formulaic twist (a murderer is simply not found; the confrontation with the murderer turns into a politico-existential debate; etc.).
		Mankell evokes all the traumatic topics which give rise to the New Right populism: the flow of illegal immigrants, soaring crime and violence, growing unemployment and social insecurity, the disintegration of social solidarity...
	lacan.com /zizekmankell.htm (1028 words)

	Boston.com / A&E / Books / Mankell returns with a new crime buster
		Mankell weaves a mournful spell through all his mysteries by adopting a calm, dispassionate tone that artfully underlines an abiding humanism for psychic as well as physical suffering.
		Mankell is married to Ingmar Bergman's daughter and while it would be facile to make too much of that connection, it is worth noting that the melancholy that suffuses the great film director's work also lifts Mankell's plots above Hollywood heroics.
		Mankell makes it obvious that dispassion and lack of passion are two entirely different things.
	www.boston.com /ae/books/articles/2004/04/20/mankell_returns_with_a_new_crime_buster (616 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| By genre \| Interview: Henning Mankell
		These are my first memories.' Henning Mankell, the writer whose detective novels are now international bestsellers, grew up in the far north of Sweden.
		Now Mankell lives half the year in Sweden, writing novels set in the weather of his native land, and half the year in Mozambique, where he is the head of Teatro Avenida in Maputo.
		Mankell says that compared to most people, the drama of his life has been inside his head.
	books.guardian.co.uk /departments/crime/story/0,6000,905487,00.html (1406 words)

	Henning mankell christ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
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	henning-mankell-christ.interfriend.sk (373 words)

	Henning Mankell (Writer) “The imagination is a fantastic tool that lets us grow and invent identities" · Forum 2004
		In telling this anecdote, Mankell intended to illustrate his theory "that the imagination is a fantastic tool that lets us grow and invent identities".
		Furthermore, Mankell said, "I'm convinced that it's essential for children to regularly enjoy live theater as a part of their education".
		Mankell said, "a society without libraries is not a society; no one is complete without emotional knowledge or imagination".
	www.barcelona2004.org /eng/actualidad/noticias/html/f046108.htm (454 words)

	biography \| henning mankell - the official website
		Henning Mankell is a Swedish author who gained bestseller stardom with his series of crime novels featuring inspector Kurt Wallander.
		Henning Mankell was born in Stockholm in 1948, raised in a village in northern Sweden and now divides his time between Sweden and Maputo, Mozambique, where he works as the director of Teatro Avenida.
		Henning Mankell's fifth novel with Kurt Wallander tells the story about a child's twisted view of the world and revenge in Villospår (Sidetracked).
	www.henningmankell.com /biography/index.shtml (1634 words)

	Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind: Henning Mankell gets no respect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Henning Mankell leaves me cold---appropriate, perhaps, given the settings of his books, but I wish this wasn't the case---I'd rather have another writer to read than to scratch my head over.
		Mankell's popularity is a mystery to me, and one I don't feel particularly driven to solve.
		Mankell is one of my current favourites which is a tad odd given I grew up in a semi-desert in Australia, hot and dry most of the time.
	www.sarahweinman.com /confessions/2005/03/henning_mankell.html (1996 words)

	Henning Mankell - from Return of the Dancing Instructor. Swedish Book Review Supplement 2001
		Despite efforts by stalwarts of the seventies and eighties such as Sven Sörmark and Ulf Durling, many felt the Swedish crime-fiction industry was in need of a refuel before Henning Mankell made his crime-fiction debut in 1991.
		Mankell's nine novels about Chief Inspector Wallander have been extremely popular, with most of his books having sold over 2 million copies each.
		Mankell's crime novels have elements of the police procedural — the forensic details, the concentration on the whole team of investigating officers — but are also thrillers.
	www.swedishbookreview.com /old/2001s-mankell.html (341 words)

	PEN American Center - Henning Mankell
		Henning Mankell was born in Stockholm in 1948 and raised in a village in northern Sweden.
		Mankell divides his time between Sweden and Maputo, Mozambique, where he works as the director of Teatro Avenida.
		Mozambique is also the setting for Henning’s powerful young adult novel Secrets in the Fire, based on real-life land-mine survivor Sofia Alface.
	pen.org /page.php/prmID/1179 (91 words)

	In a Break From Mystery Writing, Henning Mankell Turns to Africa - New York Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Mankell's Anglophone readers have only recently — and reluctantly — come to terms with the idea that their favorite Swedish detective may be about to retire from full-time sleuthing, the latest novel by Mr.
		Mankell, in an interview, took issue with the label "magical realism" — crisscrossing time and space in a story that is at once wrenchingly tragic and uplifting.
		Mankell met with a reporter in a bland hotel along a broad boulevard in his home city.
	www.nytimes.com /2006/04/27/books/27mank.html?ex=1303790400&en=89e0c2bf82f3dafc&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss (1019 words)

	Mystery Ink: Mankell, Henning - The Return of the Dancing Master (2004) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Mankell never shies from portraying the dull of aspects of routine police-work, but somehow manages to put such a spin on them as to make them interesting.
		Mankell's fiction is gloomy and occasionally depressing, in a way that attracts me to it immeasurably.
		The prologue gives us a vision of the executions of Nazi war criminals in 1945, and then in the first chapter we read terrified, yet gripped by the throat, as a scared, lonely old man's isolated home is assaulted in the dark, the windows shot out and he himself slaughtered.
	www.mysteryinkonline.com /2005/01/mankell_henning.html (662 words)

	Amazon.com: The White Lioness (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard): Books: Henning Mankell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		In the end, it's all too obvious that Mankell has read Frederick Forsyth's classic thriller The Day of the Jackal, because the similarities are striking: A secret committee plans the assassination of a world leader in order to thwart political change that will do away with their privileged status.
		Henning Mankell's "White Lioness", the third in the Kurt Wallander mystery series involves a plot that combines a local Swedish crime with an international plot based in South Africa.
		Mankell ultimately spreads himself too thin and the book bogs down in the South African passages where the philosophies and mechanism of apartheid policy is discussed.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1400031559?v=glance (2655 words)

	Books at Random House of Canada - Author Spotlight: Henning Mankell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Henning Mankell is the prize-winning and internationally acclaimed author of the Inspector Wallander Mysteries, now dominating bestseller lists throughout Europe.
		Internationally acclaimed and bestselling author Henning Mankell will be published for the first time in Canada by Knopf Canada with Depths.
		Henning Mankell is not a public figure in the way that politicians are, nor does he court publicity for himself...
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/author.pperl?authorid=42662 (606 words)

	Beatrice.com: Hanging Out With Henning Mankell
		He was joined by several hundred other admirers of the internationally bestselling Inspector Wallander novels for a rare American appearance by Swedish author Henning Mankell (though some folks might have had trouble remembering his name).
		After the short excerpt, Mankell recounted a short anecdote about walking along a beach in Mozambique that was meant to demonstrate how little the world's cultures understand each other, even as technology brings them into closer and more consistent contact.
		Mankell allowed that his background did give him some understanding of group dynamics which was particularly useful.
	www.beatrice.com /archives/000560.html (578 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Firewall: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Some of the initial resistance to Mankell's work might be understandable; like one of the greatest of all filmmakers, Ingmar Bergman, Mankell is from a country noted for Nordic gloom and the lazy-minded are not always prepared to go beyond stereotypes.
		Firewall continues Mankell's unvarnished portraits of modern life, in which society and all its institutions (not least the family) are on the edge.
		Mankell knows that otherwise his series may be just TOO bleak and depressing, so the team exists in a happy unity which is far more realistic.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0099459051 (1760 words)

	Review of Depths by Henning Mankell
		For the most part they're police-procedurals, but lifted to the top of the genre by Mankell's ability to evoke the landscape and climate of rural Sweden without resorting to long descriptive passages.
		Mankell has taken some liberties with geography and with some of the ships which feature in the story but the shading between reality and invention is invisible.
		Depths is something of a departure for Mankell, but judging by the quality of this book I expect and hope to see more in a similar vein.
	www.thebookbag.co.uk /mankelldepth.htm (826 words)

	www.reviewingtheevidence.com \| RETURN OF THE DANCING MASTER, by Henning Mankell
		Henning Mankell was born in Sweden but now spends his time in both Sweden and Mozambique - a combination of locations that could strike one as incongruous.
		Mankell is the author of The Dogs Of Riga, Faceless Killers, The White Lioness, Sidetracked, The Fifth Woman and One Step Behind amongst others.
		Mankell has touched on what appears to be a hot topic in the Europe of today, one which could quite easily see a resurgence of a menace that flourished in Germany in the first half of the twentieth century.
	www.reviewingtheevidence.com /review.html?id=3568 (814 words)

	Alibris: Henning Mankell
		Mankell's tenacious sleuth, Inspector Kurt Wallander, returns to investigate a horrific crime in his Scandinavian homeland that soon involves him with a troubled apartheid-era South Africa, in the eagerly awaited second mystery in the series.
		When a dying woman's last word seems to implicate members of the Swedish immigrant community, Police Inspector Kurt Wallander must race to solve a crime for which there are no apparent clues before local white supremacists take the law into their own hands, evidence or not....
		On the rooftop of a theater in an African port, Nelio, a ten-year-old boy--a leader of street kids, rumored to be a healer and a prophet and possessed of a strangely ancient wisdom--tells his unforgettable story over the course of nine nights.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Mankell,Henning (852 words)

	Before The Frost by Henning Mankell - A Book Club Reading Group Guide/Discussion Guide
		In one of Mankell's most compelling and suspenseful tales, Linda Wallander finds herself drawn into a plot that threatens the lives of two of her closest friends and, indeed, her own.
		Bound up in these mysterious crimes are some essential human mysteries that Mankell explores with extraordinary psychological acumen–the father-daughter relationship, religious fanaticism, the search for meaning, and the ultimate unknowability of human beings, whether friends, family, or oneself.
		Henning Mankell's novels are unusual in their exploration of emotional complexities, so that the crime-solving aspects of the stories are balanced by rich and full character development.
	www.bookbrowse.com /reading_guides/detail/index.cfm?book_number=1735 (977 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The White Lioness: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Having read virtually all of Henning Mankell's novels now, I am an avid fan of his, and in particular his leading character, Detective Kurt Wallander.
		Mankell then stirs in a few surprise ingredients to spice up the recipe: an exploding house, the severed finger of a negro, the remains of a radio transmitter and the butt of a very specialised gun all add to the flavour and keep the reader turning pages with a smoothly paced build up of suspense.
		Mankell's genius keeps the action ticking even as he describes the weblike intrigues taking shape behind the public masks of politicians and policemen and the multi faceted climax explodes into a confusion of strands which leave the reader gasping for air.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0099464691 (1029 words)

	Bookreporter.com - THE RETURN OF THE DANCING MASTER by Henning Mankell, translated by Laurie Thompson
		Lindman is a kind of an anti-hero: surprisingly earthy ("Of all the joys that life had to offer, peeing at the side of the road was the best"), relentlessly unglamorous, with the combination of intelligence and persistence that gets crimes solved.
		The alertly political aspect of Mankell's work reminds me of the wonderful mysteries written in the 1960s and '70s by a Swedish couple, Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö (some have been reissued by Vintage): they share a fundamental decency, a penchant for social criticism and a strong sense of history.
		Mankell's prose, like his characters, is plain rather than fancy, and the translation (by an Englishman, Laurie Thompson), not always in the American idiom ("take it with a pinch of salt"; "a bolt from the sky"), can seem stilted at first.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews2/1565848608.asp (649 words)

	Threepenny: Lesser, Henning Mankell
		The view Mankell puts forward in these detective stories is neither meliorist nor optimistic, but even at its darkest it is a view that ultimately depends on a belief in human decency.
		Thought, in Mankell's hands, is not entirely something logical or rational, though it can be both; it is also the hunch, the instinct, the unconscious realization.
		Henning Mankell, having created this paragon of quotidian survival, seems anxious to distance himself from Kurt Wallander.
	www.threepennyreview.com /samples/lesser_w04.html (2163 words)

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