Henning Mankell

Author

Henning Mankell was a Swedish novelist, playwright, and theatre director who was one of the most important and widely read crime writers of the modern era. Born in Stockholm in 1948, he divided his life between Sweden and Mozambique, where he ran a theatre. A Treacherous Paradise is one of his literary novels — distinct from his... celebrated Kurt Wallander detective series. The Wallander series transformed Scandinavian crime fiction and influenced a generation of writers. Mankell's work is characterised by its social conscience, its psychological depth, and its compassion for the marginalised. Mankell died in 2015. His audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers masterful Swedish fiction from one of the greatest crime writers of the modern era — writing with a social conscience as sharp as its plotting. Read more Show less