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Henning Mankell

Henning Georg Mankell (Swedish pronunciation: [²hɛnːɪŋ ˈmaŋkɛl]; 3 February 1948 – 5 October 2015) was a Swedish crime writer, children's author, and dramatist, best known for a series of mystery novels starring his most noted creation, Inspector Kurt Wallander. He also wrote a number of plays and screenplays for television.

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Shakespeare is in many ways an African writer and 'Hamlet' would be seen as a very accurate historical saga about an African kingdom.

Historical, Kingdom, Kingdoms, Saga, Would Be, Writer

Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening.

Confusing, Information, Information Knowledge, Make, Mistake, People

Sweden is still a very peaceful country to live in. I think that people in Britain have created this mythology about Sweden, that it's a perfect democratic society full of erotically charged girls.

Country, Democratic, Girl, Perfect, Sweden, Thinking

People always leave traces. No person is without a shadow.

People, Shadow, People Leaving, Person

Life is a flimsy branch over an abyss.

Abyss, Branch, Branches, Life, Life Is

Go to Mozambique! As long as you don't expect to find flawless infrastructure, just go. Because this is a country where people have not quite grown accustomed to tourists. You still feel a genuineness that no longer exists in countries where tourism has been industrially developed.

Country, Developed, Exists, Infrastructure, Long, People

Although many of his other novels are brilliant there is a power in 'Oliver Twist' that I believe Dickens never managed to retrieve. It is as if he was sent to this earth with the sole purpose of writing this book.

Believe, Book, Brilliant, Power, Writing

We don't have time to argue. Nobody has time.

Argue, Arguing, Nobody, Time

I love Sherlock Holmes. There's still an awful lot to steal from Conan Doyle. But within a tradition you can work in many different ways.

Awful, Different, Holmes, Tradition, Way, Ways

My mother did what many men do. She left.

Left, Men, Mother

The stories I create are never as awful as reality.

Awful, Create, Reality, Stories

When I was a very young author, I knew I needed to build myself a tower outside of Europe. Like when you're a hunter, and build towers to watch the animals move. I knew I would never understand the world without that perspective. I came to Africa for that rational reason, although I love Mozambique now.

Animal, Europe, Hunter, Moving, Rational, Tower

I came to Mozambique in 1986, when I first became involved with Teatro Avenida - a theatre company that stages plays concerned with political and social issues.

Company, Concerned, Issues, Play, Political, Teatro

Society had grown cruel. People who felt they were unwanted or unwelcome in their own country, reacted with aggression. There was no such thing as meaningless violence. Every violent act had a meaning for the person who committed it. Only when you dared accept this truth could you hope to turn society in another direction.

Country, Cruel, Meaning, People, Thing, Violent Acts

I'm not very much of a reader really, because I find much of it very bad, very uninteresting, very speculative.

Bad, Reader, Speculative, Uninteresting

You can have more than one home. You can carry your roots with you, and decide where they grow.

Decide, Grow, Grows, Home, Roots

I can still remember. I was ill, and I was seven, and my father didn't want me to just read children's books. He came with Conan Doyle. I tried, and I liked it. I think the first I read was 'The Sign of the Four'; 'Study in Scarlet' was the next one. Then I guess I stayed home a few extra days from school to read.

Book, Children, Father, Home, Tried

I remembered her once saying that life was like your shoes. You couldn't simply expect or imagine that your shoes would fit perfectly. Shoes that pinched your feet were a fact of life.

Facts, Feet, Perfectly, Remembered, Shoes

We only have the past that we have. Not all of our deeds were incorrect.

Deeds, Incorrect, Past

The evil always comes from details.

Evil, Details

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