Henning Mankell Sweden
Henning Mankell was born 1948 in Stockholm. When he was two years old, his father was appointed judge in Sveg, a village in northern Sweden where Henning spent his childhood. He left school at the age of sixteen and worked as a merchant seaman for two years.
After a long stay in Paris, Henning Mankell started work as a stagehand in Stockholm where he wrote his first play. His first novel was published in 1973, and the same year he went to Africa for the first time.
Since then Henning Mankell has shared his time between Africa and Sweden. He has run the Teatro Avenida in Maputo, Mocambique, since 1986.
His fame relies to a great extent on his series of books about chief inspector Kurt Wallander.
But he has published many other novels for children, young people and grown-ups, and he has been awarded several major prizes.
In addition to that he is one of Sweden's most frequently played dramatists.
In June 2008 Henning Mankell was appointed honorary doctor at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.
Henning Mankell is internationally one of the very best selling Swedish author. His books have sold more than 40 million copies world-wide and are translated into forty languages. In particular police inspector Kurt Wallander has gained fame all over the world, most recently personified by the British actor Kenneth Branagh in a television series produced by the BBC.
For more information about Henning Mankell, do look at his personal website: www.henningmankell.com
For foreign rights and any queries concerning Henning Mankell, please contact Anneli Høier at anneli@leonhardt-hoier.dk
New novel:
Henning Mankell’s new novel will be published by Leopard Förlag in August 2011.
Minnet av en smutsig angel (Memoirs of a Dirty Angel) Cold, hunger and poverty - those are first things Hanna Lungmark remembers, and they define her entire upbringing on the outskirts of Ljungan. The mysterious ways of fate move her to Africa where she becomes the owner of one of the most successfull bordellos in Lourenco Marques. In her own perception Hanna is a woman among other women, full of empathy for the prostitutes and their plight. But the black women resist her attempts at intimacy and see her as a representative of the white, colonial upper class. And little by little Hanna is changed, growing into a new and unexpected role...
"In the beginning of the 1900s something peculiar occurs on the African continent. A Swedish woman appears, as if out of nowhere, and is listed as the owner of one of the largest bordellos in the capital of the Portuguese colony Mozambique. And then, a few years later, she disappears again without a trace. Using the little we know of her, I have written this book, filling out and completing the historical fragments. The way I see her; in a time when colonialism and the superiority of the white race seemed impossible to question and even more impossible to conquer. But also a time when a woman's lot in life - particularly a black woman's - was a veritable hell.
The bordello is where power and powerlessness meet, where passion is a commodity. But it is also a place where lives are intertwined and make for a story unlike anything I have ever come close to writing." Henning Mankell
Rights sold:
Netherlands: De Geus
Norway: Gyldendal Norsk Forlag
Denmark: Gyldendal
Finland: Otava
Spain. Tusquets
Catalan: Tusquets
Germany: Paul Zsolnay Verlag
Italy: Marsilio
France: Seuil
UK: Harvill Secker
Norway audio: Lydbokforlaget
USA: Knopf
Canada: Knopf
Iceland: Forlagid
Portugal: Presenca
THE WALLANDER SERIES:
1. Mördare utan ansikte (Faceless Killers) 2. Hundarna i Riga (The Dogs of Riga) 3. Den vita lejoninnan (The White Lioness) 4. Mannen som log (The Man who Smiled) 5. Villospår (Sidetracked) 6. Den femte kvinnan (The Fifth Woman) 7. Steget efter (One Step Behind) 8. Brandvägg (Firewall) 9. Pyramiden (short stories) (The Pyramid) 10. Den orolige mannen
Complete Bibliography:
Bergsprängaren 1973, 1998 Sandmålaren 1974 <em>Fångvårdskolonin som försvann 1979, 1997 Dödsbrickan 1980 En seglares död 1981 Daisy Sisters 1982, 1993 Apelsinträdet 1983 <em>Älskade syster 1983 Sagan om Isidor 1984, 1997 Hunden som sprang mot en stjärna 1990 Leopardens öga 1990 Mördare utan ansikte 1991 Skuggorna växer i skymningen 1991 Hundarna i Riga 1992 Katten som älskade regn 1992 Den vita lejoninnan 1993 Mannen som log 1994 Comédia infantil 1995 Eldens hemlighet 1995 Villospår 1995 Den femte kvinnan 1996 Pojken som sov med snö i sin säng 1996 Steget efter 1997 Brandvägg 1998 Resan till världens ände 1998 I sand och lera 1999 Pyramiden 1999 Danslärarens återkomst 2000 Labyrinten 2000 Vindens son 2000 Eldens gåta 2001 Tea-Bag 2001 Innan frosten 2002 Jag dör, men minnet lever 2003 Djup 2004 Kennedy's hjärna 2005 Italienska Skor 2006 Kinesen 2008 Den orolige mannen 2009