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Henning Mankell
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She expressed herself clearly, as only people who talk a lot to themselves can.
— p125
Henning Mankell
Swedish writer, human rights activist and dramatist (1948–2015)
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The Swedish crime novelist who gave the world Inspector Wallander — a brooding, flawed detective who became one of Europe's most-read exports — and then spent half his life in Mozambique running a theatre and writing about the gap between what we say we believe and how we live.
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Henning Georg Mankell was born 3 February 1948 in Sweden and built two careers in parallel: crime novels that made Kurt Wallander a fixture of Scandinavian noir, and a second life as a dramatist and activist splitting time between Sweden and Africa, mostly Mozambique, where he founded a theatre. His books and plays pressed on social inequality and injustice with a left-wing edge that didn't stay on the page. In 2010 he was below deck on the MV Mavi Marmara during the Gaza Freedom Flotilla when Israeli commandos boarded and nine civilians were killed in international waters. He gave considerabl…
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Henning Mankell
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Human beings worked constantly to make their gods unnecessary.
— Depths (2006)
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