Henning Mankell is a
SwedishSweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
crime writer,
children's authorChildren's literature is for readers and listeners up to about age twelve; it is often defined in four different ways: books written by children, books written for children, books chosen by children, or books chosen for children. It is often illustrated. The term is used in senses which sometimes...
, leftist activist and dramatist, best known for a series of mystery novels starring his most famous creation,
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Kurt WallanderKurt Wallander is a fictional character created by Swedish crime writer Henning Mankell. The protagonist of several mystery novels, set in and around the town of Ystad, 60 km south-east of the city of Malmö, in the southern province of Skåne...
.
Life and career
Mankell was born in
StockholmStockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...
, Sweden, and grew up in
SvegSveg is a locality and the seat of Härjedalen Municipality in Jämtland County, Sweden with 2,633 inhabitants in 2005.The Swedish author Henning Mankell was brought up in Sveg, and it is the setting for his crime novel Danslärarens återkomst .- References :...
(
Härjedalen' is a historical province or landskap in the centre of Sweden. It borders the country of Norway as well as the provinces of Dalarna, Hälsingland, Medelpad, and Jämtland...
) and
BoråsBorås is a locality and the seat of Borås Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden. It had 63,441 inhabitants in 2005.- Geography :Borås is located at the point of two crossing railways, among them the railway between Gothenburg and Kalmar, and is often considered the Swedish city gaining the...
(
Västergötland', English exonym: West Gothland, is one of the 25 traditional non-administrative provinces of Sweden , situated in the southwest of Sweden. In older English literature one may also encounter the Latinized version Westrogothia....
). Mankell's father, Ivar, was a judge and his grandfather, also named
Henning MankellIvar Henning Mankell was a Swedish composer, largely of piano works. He studied at the conservatory in Stockholm from 1887 to 1895, and studied piano under Lennart Lundberg. He was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, and wrote music criticism for the Svenska morgonbladet and the...
(1868–1930), was a composer. At the age of 20 he had already started a career as author and assistant director at the Riksteater in Stockholm. In the following years he collaborated with several theatres in Sweden.
In his youth Mankell was a left-wing political activist and a strong opponent of the
Vietnam WarThe Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of...
, South African apartheid and Portugal's colonial war in
MozambiqueMozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique , is a country in southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west and Swaziland and South Africa to the southwest...
. In the 1970s Mankell moved from Sweden to Norway and lived with a Norwegian woman who was a member of the Maoist Communist Labour Party of Norway. Mankell took part in the party's activities but did not join the party.
After living in Zambia and other African countries, Henning Mankell was invited to become the artistic director of Teatro Avenida in
MaputoMaputo, also known as Lourenço Marques, is the capital and largest city of Mozambique. It is known as the City of Acacias in reference to acacia trees commonly found along its avenues and the Pearl of the Indian Ocean. It was famous for the inscription "This is Portugal" on the walkway of its...
, the capital of Mozambique. He now spends at least half the year in Maputo working with the theatre and writing. Recently he built up his own publishing house (Leopard Förlag) in order to support young talents from
AfricaAfrica is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
and
SwedenSweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
.
He is married to
Eva BergmanEva Bergman is a Swedish director of film, theatre and television, who currently works at Dramaten.She is the daughter of fellow Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, and has been married to the crime writer Henning Mankell since 1998.-Filmography:*En Midsommarnattsdröm *Trappen *One Love and the Other...
, daughter of
Ingmar BergmanErnst Ingmar Bergman was a Swedish director, writer and producer for film, stage and television. Described by Woody Allen as "probably the greatest film artist, all things considered, since the invention of the motion picture camera", he is recognized as one of the most accomplished and...
. On 12 June 2008 he was awarded an honorary Doctorate from the
University of St AndrewsThe University of St Andrews, informally referred to as "St Andrews", is the oldest university in Scotland and the third oldest in the English-speaking world after Oxford and Cambridge. The university is situated in the town of St Andrews, Fife, on the east coast of Scotland. It was founded between...
in
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.
Mankell recently donated 15 million Swedish kronor to
SOS Children's VillagesSOS Children's Villages is an independent, non-governmental international development organisation which has been working to meet the needs and protect the interests and rights of children since 1949. It was founded by Hermann Gmeiner in Imst, Austria...
for a village for homeless children in Mozambique. Mankell has said he's giving away half of his income to charitable causes.
Mankell developed two original stories for the German police series
TatortTatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss , crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF 2 in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland...
. Actor Axel Milberg, who portrays Inspector Klaus Borowski, had asked Mankell to contribute to the show as the two were promoting
The ChinamanThe Man from Beijing is a novel by Swedish writer Henning Mankell first published in Swedish in 2007 under the title Kinesen...
audio book, a project that Milberg had worked on. The episodes will be broadcast in Germany in 2010.
Mankell is set to work on a screenplay for
Sveriges TelevisionSveriges Television AB , Sweden's Television, is a national television broadcaster based in Sweden, funded by a compulsory fee to be paid by all television owners...
about his father-in-law, the famous movie and theatre director
Ingmar BergmanErnst Ingmar Bergman was a Swedish director, writer and producer for film, stage and television. Described by Woody Allen as "probably the greatest film artist, all things considered, since the invention of the motion picture camera", he is recognized as one of the most accomplished and...
during 2010 and the series will be produced in four one-hour episodes. Production is planned for 2011. Mankell pitched the project to
Sveriges TelevisionSveriges Television AB , Sweden's Television, is a national television broadcaster based in Sweden, funded by a compulsory fee to be paid by all television owners...
and will include international co-producers/financiers.
Political views
Mankell participated in the
Protests of 1968The protests of 1968 consisted of a worldwide series of protests, largely participated in by students and workers.-Background:Background speculations of overall causality vary about the political protests centering on the year 1968. Some argue that protests could be attributed to the social changes...
in Sweden, protesting against, among other things, the
Vietnam WarThe Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of...
, the
Portuguese Colonial WarThe Portuguese Colonial War , also known in Portugal as the Overseas War or in the former colonies as the War of liberation , was fought between Portugal's military and the emerging nationalist movements in Portugal's African colonies between 1961 and 1974, when the Portuguese regime was...
and the Apartheid regime in South Africa. Furthermore, he got involved with the society Folket i Bild/Kulturfront which focused on cultural policy studies. During his stay in Norway in the 1970s, he got in contact with the far-left Norwegian
Workers' Communist PartyThe Workers' Communist Party was a Norwegian communist party . AKP was a maoist party and one of two communist parties in Norway; the other was the older Communist Party of Norway which has remained pro-Soviet. The relationship between the two parties was characterized by strong hostility.AKP was...
(AKP-ml) and took an active part in their actions. In 2002 he gave financial support by buying stocks for 50,000 NOK in the Norwegian left-wing newspaper
KlassekampenKlassekampen is a Norwegian daily newspaper, which styles itself as "the daily left-wing newspaper".Klassekampen was founded in 1969 with a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist platform. Until recently, it was owned by The Workers' Communist Party...
.
In 2009, Mankell was a guest at a Palestinian literary conference. Thereafter, he claimed to have seen "repetition of the despicable Apartheid system that once treated Africans and coloured as second-class citizens in their own country". He also found a resemblance between the
Israeli West Bank barrierThe Israeli West Bank barrier is a separation barrier being constructed by the State of Israel along and within the West Bank. Upon completion, the barrier’s total length will be approximately...
and the
Berlin WallThe Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin...
. Considering the environment the Palestinian people live in, he continued, it is not astonishing that "some decide to become suicide bombers....it is strange that there are not more of them". "The Israelis" would "destroy lives" and the Israeli State is not to have a future in its current form, as a two-state solution would not reverse the "historical occupation". He claimed not to have encountered antisemitism during his journey, just "hatred against the occupants that is completely normal and understandable".
In 2008, speaking about nationalism and
NorwayNorway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
, he stated that "Nationalism is almost spiteful in nature. It can sometimes be glimpsed as something brown behind the waving Norwegian flags."
Gaza flotilla
Henning Mankell was on board the MS Sofia, one of the boats which took part in the flotilla which tried to break the Israeli embargo of the Gaza strip. Following the Israel Defence Forces' boarding of the flotilla on the morning of May 31, 2010, Mankell was deported to Sweden. He subsequently called for global sanctions against Israel. He is currently considering halting the Hebrew translations of his books.
Mankell will be one of twenty Swedish participants in "Freedom Flotilla 2", expected to sail to Gaza in June 2011.
Kurt Wallander
Kurt WallanderKurt Wallander is a fictional character created by Swedish crime writer Henning Mankell. The protagonist of several mystery novels, set in and around the town of Ystad, 60 km south-east of the city of Malmö, in the southern province of Skåne...
is a
fictionalA character is the representation of a person in a narrative work of art . Derived from the ancient Greek word kharaktêr , the earliest use in English, in this sense, dates from the Restoration, although it became widely used after its appearance in Tom Jones in 1749. From this, the sense of...
police
inspectorA detective is an investigator, either a member of a police agency or a private person. The latter may be known as private investigators or "private eyes"...
living and working in
YstadYstad is a "locality", or town, and the seat of Ystad Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden, with 17,286 inhabitants .Settlement dates back to the 11th century and the town has become a busy ferryport, local administrative centre and tourist attraction...
,
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. In the novels, he solves shocking murders with his colleagues. The novels have an underlying question: "What went wrong with Swedish society?" The series has won many awards, including the German Crime Prize and the British 2001
CWAThe Crime Writers Association is a writers' association in the United Kingdom. Founded by John Creasey in 1953, it is currently chaired by Peter James and claims 450+ members....
Gold DaggerThe Gold Dagger Award was an award given annually by the Crime Writers' Association for the best crime novel of the year.For its first five years, the organization's top honor was known as the Crossed Red Herring Award....
for Sidetracked. The ninth book,
The PyramidThe Pyramid is a collection of five short stories by Swedish crime fiction author Henning Mankell, published in 1999...
, is a prequel: a collection of five novellas (Wallander's First Case, The Man with the Mask, The Man on the Beach, The Death of the Photographer, The Pyramid) about Wallander's past, with the last one ending just before the start of
Faceless KillersFaceless Killers is a crime novel by Swedish writer Henning Mankell, and the first in his acclaimed Wallander series. The English translation by Steven T...
. Ten years after The Pyramid, Mankell published another Wallander novel, The Troubled Man, which he said would definitely be the last in the series.
- Mördare utan ansikte (1991; English translation by Steven T. Murray
Steven T. Murray is an American translator from Swedish, German, Danish, and Norwegian. He has worked under the pseudonyms Reg Keeland and McKinley Burnett when edited into UK English...
: Faceless KillersFaceless Killers is a crime novel by Swedish writer Henning Mankell, and the first in his acclaimed Wallander series. The English translation by Steven T...
, 1997)
- Hundarna i Riga (1992; English translation by Laurie Thompson
Laurie Thompson is a British academic and translator, born in York, England, and lived in northern Sweden for a few years, noted for his translations of Swedish literature into English...
: The Dogs of RigaThe Dogs of Riga is a Swedish detective mystery by Henning Mankell, set in Riga, the capital of Latvia. It is the second book of the Kurt Wallander series, and was translated into English by Laurie Thompson.- Plot introduction:...
, 2001)
- Den vita lejoninnan (1993; English translation by Laurie Thompson
Laurie Thompson is a British academic and translator, born in York, England, and lived in northern Sweden for a few years, noted for his translations of Swedish literature into English...
: The White LionessThe White Lioness is a crime novel by Swedish writer Henning Mankell, the third in the Inspector Wallander series.-Synopsis:...
, 1998)
- Mannen som log (1994; English translation by Laurie Thompson
Laurie Thompson is a British academic and translator, born in York, England, and lived in northern Sweden for a few years, noted for his translations of Swedish literature into English...
: The Man Who SmiledThe Man Who Smiled is a novel by Swedish crime-writer Henning Mankell, and is the fourth in the Inspector Wallander series, although the English translations have not been published in chronological order.-Synopsis:...
, 2005)
- Villospår (1995; English translation by Steven T. Murray
Steven T. Murray is an American translator from Swedish, German, Danish, and Norwegian. He has worked under the pseudonyms Reg Keeland and McKinley Burnett when edited into UK English...
: Sidetracked, 1999)
- Den femte kvinnan (1996; English translation by Steven T. Murray
Steven T. Murray is an American translator from Swedish, German, Danish, and Norwegian. He has worked under the pseudonyms Reg Keeland and McKinley Burnett when edited into UK English...
: The Fifth WomanThe Fifth Woman is a crime novel by Swedish author Henning Mankell, the sixth in his acclaimed Inspector Wallander series.-Synopsis:...
, 2000)
- Steget efter (1997; English translation by Ebba Segerberg
Ebba Segerberg is an academic and translator, noted for her translations of Swedish literature into English.Segerberg is Adjunct Lecturer in Swedish at Washington University in St. Louis, USA. She has contributed to The Dictionary of Literary Biography: 20th Century Swedish...
: One Step BehindOne Step Behind is a crime novel by Swedish author Henning Mankell, the seventh in his acclaimed Inspector Wallander series.-Synopsis:...
, 2002)
- Brandvägg (1998; English translation by Ebba Segerberg
Ebba Segerberg is an academic and translator, noted for her translations of Swedish literature into English.Segerberg is Adjunct Lecturer in Swedish at Washington University in St. Louis, USA. She has contributed to The Dictionary of Literary Biography: 20th Century Swedish...
: Firewall, 2002)
- Pyramiden (1999; short stories; English translation by Ebba Segerberg
Ebba Segerberg is an academic and translator, noted for her translations of Swedish literature into English.Segerberg is Adjunct Lecturer in Swedish at Washington University in St. Louis, USA. She has contributed to The Dictionary of Literary Biography: 20th Century Swedish...
with Laurie ThompsonLaurie Thompson is a British academic and translator, born in York, England, and lived in northern Sweden for a few years, noted for his translations of Swedish literature into English...
: The PyramidThe Pyramid is a collection of five short stories by Swedish crime fiction author Henning Mankell, published in 1999...
, 2008)
- Den orolige mannen (2009; English translation by Laurie Thompson
Laurie Thompson is a British academic and translator, born in York, England, and lived in northern Sweden for a few years, noted for his translations of Swedish literature into English...
: The Troubled ManThe Troubled Man is a crime fiction novel by Swedish author Henning Mankell, featuring police inspector Kurt Wallander. Mankell has announced that it is the final Wallander novel.- Synopsis :...
, 2011)
Linda Wallander
- Innan frosten (2002; English translation by Ebba Segerberg
Ebba Segerberg is an academic and translator, noted for her translations of Swedish literature into English.Segerberg is Adjunct Lecturer in Swedish at Washington University in St. Louis, USA. She has contributed to The Dictionary of Literary Biography: 20th Century Swedish...
: Before the FrostBefore the Frost is a novel by Swedish crime-writer Henning Mankell.The main protagonist is Linda Wallander, daughter of Inspector Wallander...
, 2005)
Others
- Danslärarens återkomst (2000; English translation by Laurie Thompson
Laurie Thompson is a British academic and translator, born in York, England, and lived in northern Sweden for a few years, noted for his translations of Swedish literature into English...
: The Return of the Dancing MasterThe Return of the Dancing Master is a 2000 novel by Swedish crime writer Henning Mankell. It was translated into English in 2003 by Laurie Thompson, and won the 2005 Gumshoe Award for Best European Crime Novel, presented by Mystery Ink....
, 2004)
- Kennedys hjärna (2007; English translation by Laurie Thompson
Laurie Thompson is a British academic and translator, born in York, England, and lived in northern Sweden for a few years, noted for his translations of Swedish literature into English...
: Kennedy's BrainKennedy's Brain is a novel by Swedish writer Henning Mankell, that was originally published in the Swedish language in 2005. The English translation by Laurie Thompson was published in September, 2007....
, 2007- U.S. Release)
- Kinesen (2007; English translation by Laurie Thompson
Laurie Thompson is a British academic and translator, born in York, England, and lived in northern Sweden for a few years, noted for his translations of Swedish literature into English...
: The Man from Beijing, 2010)
Other fiction
- Vettvillingen (1977)
- Fångvårdskolonin som försvann (1979)
- Dödsbrickan (1980)
- En seglares död (1981)
- Daisy Sisters (1982)
- Sagan om Isidor (1984)
- Leopardens öga (1990); English translation by Steven T. Murray
Steven T. Murray is an American translator from Swedish, German, Danish, and Norwegian. He has worked under the pseudonyms Reg Keeland and McKinley Burnett when edited into UK English...
: The Eye of the Leopard, (2008)
- Comédia infantil (1995); English translation by Tiina Nunnally
Tiina Nunnally is an American author and translator.Nunnally was born in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and St. Louis Park, Minnesota. She was an AFS exchange student to Århus, Denmark in 1969-70. She received her MA in 1976 from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a...
: Chronicler of the WindsChronicler of the Winds is a story about an urchin set in Maputo, the capital of Mozambique written by Henning Mankell in 1995.The story is told by a baker, José M. V., who finds Nelio, the main character, shot on the stage of a theatre....
, (2006)
- Vindens son (2000); English translation by Steven T. Murray: Daniel
Daniel is a novel by Swedish writer Henning Mankell first published in Swedish in 2000 under the title Vindens son . The English translation by Steven T. Murray was published in September 2010.-Plot:The story is set in 1874...
(2010)
- Tea-Bag (2001)
- Djup (2004); English translation by Laurie Thompson
Laurie Thompson is a British academic and translator, born in York, England, and lived in northern Sweden for a few years, noted for his translations of Swedish literature into English...
: DepthsDepths is a 2004 novel by Swedish writer Henning Mankell.Set in 1914, the novel concerns a naval engineer Lars Tobiasson-Svartman, on board the Swedish navy's Coast Defence Ship Svea, undertaking a covert mission to find and chart navigable channels through the Stockholm archipelago...
, (2006)
- Italienska skor (2006); English translation by Laurie Thompson: Italian Shoes
Italian Shoes is a 2006 novel by Swedish writer Henning Mankell. The English translation is by Laurie Thompson and in contrast with Mankell's other well-known novels has been written in the first person.-Plot summary:...
, (2009)
Books about Sofia
- Secrets in the Fire
Secrets in the Fire is a children's novel by Swedish author Henning Mankell. It was published in 1995 and was translated into English by Anne Connie Stuksrud. Land mine victim Sofia Alface served as the inspiration for the novel.-Plot summary:...
— 2000 (Eldens hemlighet, 1995 )
- Playing with Fire — 2002 (Eldens gåta, 2001)
- The Fury in the Fire – 2009 (Eldens vrede, 2005)
Joel Gustafsson series
- A Bridge to the Stars — 2005 (Hunden som sprang mot en stjärna — 1990)
- Shadows in the Twilight — 2007 (Skuggorna växer i skymningen — 1991)
- When the Snow Fell — 2007 (Pojken som sov med snö i sin säng – 1996)
- The Journey to the End of the World — 2008 (Resan till världens ände – 1998)
Film and television
Mankell has also written original screenplays for television.
- Unnamed Ingmar Bergman docudrama (2012) TV mini-series
- Talismanen (2003) TV mini-series (co-written with Jan Guillou
Jan Oskar Sverre Lucien Henri Guillou is a Swedish author and journalist. Among his books are a series of spy fiction novels about a spy named Carl Hamilton, and a trilogy of historical fiction novels about a Knight Templar, Arn Magnusson...
)
- Labyrinten (2000) TV mini-series
- Etterfølgeren (1997)
Plays
- Bergsprängaren (1973)
- Sandmålaren (1974) – Sand painter
- Vettvillingen (1977) – The Maniac
- Fångvårdskolonin som försvann (1979)
- Dödsbrickan (1980)
- En seglares död (1981) – Death of a Sailor
- Daisy Sisters (1982)
- Apelsinträdet (1983) – The Orange Tree
- Älskade syster (1983) – Beloved Sister
- Sagan om Isidor (1984) Isidor's Saga
- Katten som älskade regn (1992) The Cat that Loved Rain
- Pojken som sov med snö i sin säng (1996) – The Boy Who Slept with Snow in His Bed
- Resan till värdens ände (1998) – Journey to The End of the World
- I sand och i lera (1999) – In Sand and Mud
- Labyrinten (2000) – The Labyrinth
- Eldens gåta (2001) – Fire Riddle
- Tea-Bag (2001)
- Jag dör, men minnet lever (2003) – I Die, but the Memory Lives
- Italienska skor (2006) – Italian shoes
- Politik (2010) – Politics
- Darwins kapten (2010) - Darwin's Captain
- In Duisternis (2010) - Time of Darkness
Plays with no release date available:
- Att Storma Himlen
- Mannen Som Byggde Kojor
- Och Sanden Ropar...
- Påläggskalven
- Svarte Petter
- Grävskopan
- Berättelser På Tidens Strand
- Den Samvetslöse Mördaren Hasse Karlsson...
- Mörkertid
- Innan Gryningen
- Lampedusa
- En Gammal Man Som Dansar
- Hårbandet
- Kakelugnen På Myren
- Antiloperna
- Valpen
- Tokfursten
- Butterfly Blues
- Möte Om Eftermiddagen
- Gatlopp
- En Höstkväll Innan Tystnaden
- Tyckte Jag Hörde Hundar
Film and television adaptations
- Wallander
The Kurt Wallander novels written by Henning Mankell were adapted into films for Swedish television between 1994 and 2006.- Adaptations :...
(1997–2007) Sveriges TelevisionSveriges Television AB , Sweden's Television, is a national television broadcaster based in Sweden, funded by a compulsory fee to be paid by all television owners...
. Swedish language.
- Wallander
Wallander is a Swedish television series adapted from Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander novels and starring Krister Henriksson in the title role. The 1st series of 13 films were produced in 2005 and 2006, with one taken directly from a novel and the remainder with new storylines suggested by Mankell...
(2005, 2009) Yellow BirdYellow Bird is a Swedish film and television production company founded by best-selling novelist Henning Mankell and film-producers Ole Søndberg and Lars Björkman. The company was founded to produce films based on Mankell's Kurt Wallander novels. Yellow Bird was sold to Danish media house Zodiak...
for TV4 (Sweden). Swedish language.
- Wallander (2008, 2009) Yellow Bird for BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
(UK). English language.
Awards and honours
- 1991 – Swedish Crime Writers' Academy
The Swedish Crime Writers' Academy , is a Swedish organization set up in 1971 to promote the writing of detective fiction and crime fiction...
, Best Swedish Crime Novel AwardThe Best Swedish Crime Novel Award is a literary prize awarded annually since 1982 by the Swedish Crime Writers' Academy.The winners of the award are:* 1982 - Leif GW Persson for Samhällsbärarna...
for Faceless Killers
- 1991 – The Nils Holgersson Prize for A Bridge to the Stars
- 1992 – The Glass Key Award For Best Nordic Crime Novel: Faceless Killers
- 1993 – Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis
The Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis is an annual award established in 1956 by the Federal Ministry of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth to recognise outstanding works of children's literature. It is Germany's only state-funded literary award. In the past, authors from many countries...
for A Bridge to the Stars
- 1995 – Swedish Crime Writers' Academy
The Swedish Crime Writers' Academy , is a Swedish organization set up in 1971 to promote the writing of detective fiction and crime fiction...
, Best Swedish Crime Novel AwardThe Best Swedish Crime Novel Award is a literary prize awarded annually since 1982 by the Swedish Crime Writers' Academy.The winners of the award are:* 1982 - Leif GW Persson for Samhällsbärarna...
for Sidetracked
- 1996 - Swedish Astrid Lindgren Prize
- 2001 – Crime Writers' Association
The Crime Writers Association is a writers' association in the United Kingdom. Founded by John Creasey in 1953, it is currently chaired by Peter James and claims 450+ members....
Gold DaggerThe Gold Dagger Award was an award given annually by the Crime Writers' Association for the best crime novel of the year.For its first five years, the organization's top honor was known as the Crossed Red Herring Award....
for Best Crime Novel of the Year: Sidetracked
- 2001 - Corine Literature Prize
The Corine – International Book Prize, as it is officially called, is a German literature prize created by theBavarian Landesverband of the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels first awarded in 2001...
for One Step behindOne Step Behind is a crime novel by Swedish author Henning Mankell, the seventh in his acclaimed Inspector Wallander series.-Synopsis:...
- 2005 – Gumshoe Award for Best European Crime Novel: The Return of the Dancing Master
- 2008 - Corine Literature Prize for the German Audiobook The Man from Beijing
Radio
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