He was born in Stockholm in 1948, February 3rd and died in Gothenburg last October 5th because of a cancer. Well known all over the world due to inspector Kurt Wallander, our Spanish Language teachers appreciate his novels for young people and they usually include these titles in their recommended reading list. We are very proud that we can offer our students his whole bibliography for young people in Spanish and we are also satisfied because of the success these novels always achieve.
Throughout his career, Mankell was lavishly rewarded: in 1991, he got the Swedish Crime Writers’ Academy Award and the Nils Holgersson Plaque, for Faceless Killers; following years, in 1992 and 1993, he got Deutscher Jungendliteraturpreis, in 2000 he was awarded in France with Prix Mystère de la Critique; and in 2006 November, he won the Spanish award called Pepe Carvalho in appreciation for his whole work.
Besides his literary career, Henning Mankell developed an intense and constant political activism: in his youth, he took part in civic events against Vietnam war and apartheid in South Africa; since 80's, he felt involved with refugees and he visited camps in Mozambique and South Africa; recently, he claimed for Palestinian people rights and donated a big amount of money to SOS Children's Villages for a children's village in western Mozambique.
Certainly, we all will miss him.
Here you can see some of his novels, published in Spain, avaliable at our school library.
Fonts: (Photograph)
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