![]() ![]() On 12 June 2008 he was awarded an honorary Doctorate from the University of St Andrews in Scotland. He is married to Eva Bergman, daughter of Ingmar Bergman. Recently he built up his own publishing house (Leopard Förlag) in order to support young talents from Africa and Sweden. He now spends at least half the year in Maputo working with the theatre and writing. Mankell took part in the party's activities but never himself joined the party.Īfter living in Zambia and other African countries, Henning Mankell was invited to become the artistic director of Teatro Avenida in Maputo, the capital of Mozambique. In the 1970s Mankell moved from Sweden to Norway and lived with a Norwegian woman who was a member of the Maoist Communist Labor Party of Norway. In his youth Mankell was a left-wing political activist and a strong opponent of the Vietnam War, South African apartheid and Portugal's colonial war in Mozambique. In the following years he collaborated with several theaters in Sweden. At the age of 20 he already started a career as author and assistant director at the Riks Theater in Stockholm. Mankell's father, Ivar, was a judge and his grandfather, also called Henning Mankell (1868–1930), was a composer. Mankell was born in Stockholm, Sweden, and grew up in Sveg (Harjedalen) and Boras (Vastergotland). Currently-lives in Sweden and Maputo, Mozambiqueīest known for his series of police procedurals featuring the adventures of Swedish detective Kurt Wallander-selling over 10 million copies worldwide-Henning Mankell has become a mystery master garnering critical acclaim in both the U.K.Jugendliteraturpreis Crime Writers' Assn.-Gold Dagger Gumshow Award for Nils Holgersson Prize Glass Key Award for Best Nordic Crime Novel Deutscher Awards-Swedish Crime Writers' Academy-Best Swedish Crime Novel Award (twice).Education-Hogre Allmana Laroverket, Boras.But the narrative also takes us back 150 years into the depths of the slave trade between China and the United States-a history that will ensnare Birgitta as she draws ever closer to solving the Hesjovallen murders. ![]() The investigation leads to the highest echelons of power in present-day Beijing, and to Zimbabwe and Mozambique. The police insist that only a lunatic could have committed the Hesjovallen murders, but Birgitta is determined to uncover what she now suspects is a more complicated truth. She then discovers the nineteenth-century diary of an Andren ancestor-a gang master on the American transcontinental railway-that describes brutal treatment of Chinese slave workers. Judge Birgitta Roslin has particular reason to be shocked: Her grandparents, the Andréns, are among the victims, and Birgitta soon learns that an Andrén family in Nevada has also been murdered. The only clue is a red ribbon found at the scene. In the Swedish hamlet of Hesjovallen, nineteen people have been massacred. The acclaimed author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries, writing at the height of his powers, now gives us an electrifying stand-alone global thriller. Henning Mankell, 2007 (trans., Laurie Thompson, 2010) ![]()
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