Henning Mankell ✓

(1948–2015) crime fiction writer Sweden

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Henning Mankell (1948–2015) was a Sweden crime fiction writer, known for Chronicler of the Winds|The Fifth Woman|The White Lioness|Firewall|Sidetracked|One Step Behind|The Man Who Smiled|The Pyramid|Before the Frost|The Dogs of Riga|Faceless Killers|The Man from Beijing|Kennedy's Brain|The Troubled Man|Italian Shoes|Secrets in the Fire|The Return of the Dancing Master|An Event in Autumn|Q136356753.

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• Police work wouldn't be possible without coffee. Coffee
• 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… Africa
• We don't have time to argue. Nobody has time. Argue
• The evil always comes from details. Always Comes
• Life is a flimsy branch over an abyss. Abyss
• Some people give theirselves a certain number of white weeks once in a year, when they do not drink a single drop of alcohol. It… Alcohol
• Each person searches for the most beautiful jump which will be the final before leaving this world. Beautiful
• Our exile organizations have been our way of replacing the cities and villages we have lost. Been
• I know paradise has many gates, just as hell does. One has to learn to distinguish between them, or one is lost. Distinguish
• Justice doesn't only mean that the people who commit crime are punished. It also means that we can never give up seeking the truth. Commit
• Children get acquainted with each other in a special way, they do not make contracts as adults, they believe each other or not. Childish friendships… Acquainted
• Many words will be written on the wind and the sand, or end up in some obscure digital vault. But the storytelling will go on… Chronicle
• It struck me as I listened to those two men that a truer nomination (name) for our species than Homo sapiens might be Homo narrans,… Animal
• Novels are . . . an unsurpassed form to understand people. Form
• We only have the past that we have. Not all of our deeds were incorrect. All
• They pondered the importance of coffee in silence. Coffee
• I can still remember the miraculous feeling of writing a sentence, then more sentences, telling a story. The first thing I wrote was a one-page… Any
• We used to send whole flocks of birds shooting out of our mouths and never managed to grab them by their wings. Bird
• For me Oliver Twist is a political novel. It is a furious critique of the treatment of orphans and poor children who were forced to… Children
• An oppressed people will always rise. Always Rise

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