Editing Henning Mankell (section)

== Life and career ==
Mankell's grandfather, also named [[Henning Mankell (composer)|Henning Mankell]], lived from 1868 to 1930 and was a composer.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://henningmankell.se/Platser/Sveg/|title=Sveg|work=henningmankell.se|access-date=6 October 2015|language=sv|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151006191544/http://henningmankell.se/Platser/Sveg/|archive-date=6 October 2015|df=dmy-all}}</ref> Mankell was born in [[Stockholm]], Sweden in 1948. His father Ivar was a lawyer who divorced his mother when Mankell was one year old. He and an older sister lived with his father for most of their childhood. The family first lived in [[Sveg]], [[Härjedalen]] in northern Sweden, where Mankell's father was a district judge. In the biography on Mankell's website, he describes this time when they lived in a flat above the court as one of the happiest in his life.<ref name=bio>{{cite web|url=http://henningmankell.com/author/biography/|title=Henning Mankell: Biography|author=Henning Mankell|access-date=11 October 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015210055/http://henningmankell.com/author/biography/|archive-date=15 October 2015|df=dmy-all}}</ref> In [[Sveg]], a museum was built in his honour during his lifetime.<ref name=obit />

Later, when Mankell was thirteen, the family moved to [[Borås]], [[Västergötland]] on the Swedish west coast near [[Gothenburg]].<ref name="bio" /> After three years he dropped out of school and went to Paris when he was 16. Shortly afterwards he joined the merchant marine, working on a [[cargo ship]] and he "loved the ship's decent hard-working community".<ref name=bio /> In 1966, he returned to Paris to become a writer. He took part in the [[May 1968 events in France|student uprising of 1968]]. He later returned to work as a stagehand in Stockholm.<ref name=obit /> At the age of 20, he had already started as author at the [[National Swedish Touring Theatre]] in Stockholm.<ref name="kultur">{{cite news|last1=Schottenius|first1=Maria|title=Henning Mankell: Det var en livskatastrof|url=https://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/henning-mankell-det-var-en-livskatastrof/|date=27 September 2014|newspaper=[[Dagens Nyheter]]|access-date=16 February 2016}}</ref> In the following years he collaborated with several theatres in Sweden. His first play, ''The Amusement Park'' dealt with [[Swedish colonization of the Americas|Swedish colonialism in South America]].<ref name= bio /> In 1973, he published ''The Stone Blaster'', a novel about the [[Swedish labour movement]]. He used the proceeds from the novel to travel to Guinea-Bissau. Africa would later become a second home to him, and he spent a big part of his life there. When his success as a writer made it possible, he founded and ran a theatre in Mozambique.<ref name=bio />

From 1991 to 2013, Mankell wrote the books which made him famous worldwide, the Kurt Wallander mystery novels. Wallander was a fictional detective living in Ystad in southern Sweden, who supervised a squad of detectives in solving murders, some of which were bizarre. As they worked to catch a killer who had to be stopped before he could kill again, the team often worked late into the nights in a heightened atmosphere of tension and crisis. Wallander's thoughts and worries about his daughter, his health, his lack of friends and a social life, his worries about Swedish society, shared his mental life with his many concerns and worries about the case he was working. There were ten books in the series. They were translated into many languages and sold millions of copies worldwide. The series gave Mankell the freedom and wherewithal to pursue other projects which interested him.

After living in Zambia and other African countries, Mankell was invited from 1986 onward to become the artistic director of Teatro Avenida in [[Maputo]], Mozambique. He subsequently spent extended periods in Maputo working with the theatre and as a writer. He built his own publishing house, ''Leopard Förlag'', in order to support young talented writers from Africa and Sweden.<ref name="Damen">{{cite web|last = Damen|first = Jos|url = http://www.ascleiden.nl/news/henning-mankell-1948-2015-africa|title = Henning Mankell (1948–2015) & Africa|publisher = [[African Studies Centre Leiden]]|date = 16 April 2006|access-date = 8 October 2015}}</ref> His novel ''[[Chronicler of the Winds]]'', published in Sweden as ''Comédie infantil'' in 1995, reflects African problems and is based on African [[storytelling]].<ref name="Cowell">{{cite news| last = Cowell| first = Alan| url = https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/27/books/27mank.html?oref=slogin| title = In a Break From Mystery Writing, Henning Mankell Turns to Africa| newspaper = [[The New York Times]]| date = 21 April 2006| access-date = 6 September 2015}}</ref> On 12{{nbsp}}June 2008, he was awarded an honorary Doctorate from the [[University of St Andrews]] in Scotland "in recognition of his major contribution to literature and to the practical exercise of conscience".<ref>{{cite web|
url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/oct/05/henning-mankell-wallender-author-dies-at-67|
title=Henning Mankell, Swedish author of Wallander, dies at 67|author1=Alison Flood|author2=David Crouch|
website=[[TheGuardian.com]]|date=5 October 2015|access-date=11 October 2015}}</ref>

Around 2008, Mankell developed two original stories for the German police series ''[[Tatort]]''. Actor [[Axel Milberg]], who portrays Inspector [[Klaus Borowski]], had asked Mankell to contribute to the show when they were promoting ''[[The Man from Beijing (novel)|The Man from Beijing]]'' audiobook, a project that Milberg had worked on. The episodes were scheduled to broadcast in Germany in 2010.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.welt.de/fernsehen/article2682891/Henning-Mankell-schreibt-zwei-Tatort-Krimis.html|title=Berühmte Autoren: Henning Mankell schreibt zwei "Tatort"-Krimis – Die Welt|date=6 November 2008|work=Die Welt|access-date=5 October 2015|language=de}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.welt.de/die-welt/vermischtes/hamburg/article5514723/Ironie-macht-die-Dinge-oft-einfacher.html|title=Ironie macht die Dinge oft einfacher|author=Günter Fink|date=13 December 2009|work=[[Die Welt]]|access-date=5 October 2015|language=de}}</ref> In 2010, Mankell was set to work on a screenplay for [[Sveriges Television]] about his father-in-law, movie and theatre director [[Ingmar Bergman]], on a series produced in four one-hour episodes. Mankell pitched the project to Sveriges Television and production was planned for 2011.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.svd.se/kulturnoje/nyheter/bergmans-liv-blir-tv-drama_3977337.svd|title=Bergmans liv blir tv-drama|work=SvD.se|date=21 December 2009 |access-date=5 October 2015|language=sv|last1=Amster |first1=Harry }}</ref>
At the time of his death, Mankell had written over 40 novels that had sold more than 40 million copies worldwide.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.henningmankell.se|title=Henning Mankell website|access-date=10 October 2015|language=sv|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151008015157/http://henningmankell.se/|archive-date=8 October 2015|df=dmy-all}}</ref>