Henning Mankell

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A couple of weeks ago I met an African architect in Berlin. His name is Diébédo Francis Kéré. He comes from Burkina Faso and divides his time between working in Germany and his native country. His name is worth remembering, a most fascinating architect.

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	In The Eye of the Leopard, Hans Olofsson travels to Zambia and stays for 20 years until he reluctantly is forced to leave the country when the African struggle for liberation makes it too dangerous for him to stay.


	In Uganda, Henning Mankell is committed to a tv-project, Karibu Africa!, whose primary aim is to devise, produce and broadcast a daily television drama series targeted at teenagers and young adults in an emerging society with the underlying purpose of informing and educating about relevant social issues.. If you want to read more about the project click here


	Since 1986 Henning Mankell has divided his time between Maputo and Sweden. Here he spends at least six months every year, and works as an artistic leader at Teatro Avenida.


	In 2008 Henning Mankell went on a long awaited journey to Timbuktu - the place where the myth about an Africa that lacks a written language is being crushed. Mankell is also currently writing a novel with the title The Journey to Timbuktu.


	Henning Mankell has a dream that his memory books project about HIV and AIDS one day will be stacked in the new library in Alexandria . Together with PLAN Henning Mankell initiated this project to try to raise awareness about the HIV/AIDS issue.


	Guina-Bissau was the first place in Africa Henning Mankell visited. The year was 1972 and the moment he got off the plane he had a curious feeling of coming home.


	In Chimoio Henning Mankell, together with SOS Children's Villages, are building a small village for approximately 100 orphans. For more info go to SOS Children's Villages.


	In the upcoming novell, The Man from Beijing, Birgitta Roslin travels to Beijing to try to find out what happened in the small village of Hesjövallen.


	In The Man from Beijing the traces lead back to three Chinese brothers who were kidnapped in Kanton to work as slaves for the railway in Nevada in the 1860's.


	Henning Mankell vistited the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair in 2009. Among other guests were Assia Djebar and Elias Khoury.


	Kanchepuram is the Indian village Henning Mankell has sponsered through the help organisation Hand in Hand


	All the novels about Wallander take place in Ystad. Click here to read more about the Wallander book series. Or here to glance at the BBC Wallander movies. Are you interested in visiting Ystad or finding out more go to Ystads kommuns hemsida.


	In Kennedy's Brain, the archeolog Louise Cantor is working in Athens when she founds out that her son has been found dead in anapartment in Stockholm. She suspects he has been murdered.


	Traces after the dead son Henrik in Kennedy's Brain leads to a secret apartment in Barcelona...


	On the coast of the Italian island Lampedusa, refugees are found dead every day, people who have died trying to make their way to Europe. Click here to read about Henning Mankells play Lampedusa.


	The Shoemaker that appears in Italian Shoes worked for the legendary shoemaker Gatto in Rome.


	The Man from Beijing that partly takes place in London's Soho and Chinatown, begins with a brutal massmurder in a small village in Hälsningland, Sweden.


	In The Dogs in Riga, two dead men in a rescue raft floats a shore on the coast of Skåne. Kurt Wallander leaves Ystad for Riga to solve the case.


	In Copenhagen Henning Mankell's latest novel The Man from Beijing and the Wallander novel One Step Behind take place.


	Sveg is the place where Henning Mankell was raised. Two years ago a culture centre in his name was opened there. It holds a permanent exhibition about Mankell and his work.To find out go to Kulturcentrum Mankell. Henning Mankells books about the boy Joel takes place in Sveg, as well as the novel Italian Shoes.


	Henning Mankell was born in Stockholm on February 3rd 1948. In the new novel about Kurt Wallander, Wallander spends time in Stockholm to try to find out what has happened.


	In the upcoming Wallander novel, Kurt Wallander is forced to travel to Berlin to meet with a former CIA agent.


	Henning Mankell's play Night Hawks takes place in New York. Inspired by a painting by Edward Hopper Henning Mankell has written a play about working class people in the 50's.


	The course of events in The Man From Beijing travels from Beijing in the far east to San Fransisco in the west.


	I the novel Before The Frost, where the story initially takes place in Jonestown, Kurt's adughter Linda Wallander plays a central part thoughout the plot.


	On his journey with the Beagle, Charles Darwin visited the Galápagos islands. It was there he discovered that the finches appearence were different from one iland to the other. Click here to read about Henning Mankells play Darwin's Captain.


	In Kennedy's Brain Louise Cantor travels to Byron, a small town on the Australian east coast to follow a lead in the hunt for her son's killer.