Swedish Wallander s2 on DVD in the US in May
The second series of the Swedish Wallander with Krister Henriksson will be released on video-on-demand and DVD in the US in the end of May.
Watch Wallander in 13 recently recorded episodes in the pittoresque town of Ystad, Sweden. The episodes are 90 minutes each and will be in Swedish with English subtitles.
Read more about the new Wallander episodes here.
The Troubled Man nominated for Best Novel
The very last novel in the Wallander series, The Troubled Man, has been nominated for Best Novel in the 2012 Barry Awards. In 2009 another Swedish writer, Stieg Larsson, won the award for his novel The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Earlier winners of the Barry Award have been George Pelecanos, Dennis Lehane and Denise Mina.
The Barry Award is a crime literary prize awarded annually by the editors of Deadly Pleasures, an american publication for crime fiction readers. … Read more
Memoirs of a Dirty Angel nominated for European Literature Prize
Henning Mankell’s latest novel, Memoirs of a Dirty Angel, has been nominated for the European Literature Prize 2012. Eleven independent Dutch and Flemish bookshops have selected the twenty best titles from among all the European literary novels that appeared in Dutch translation in 2011.
The European Literature Prize will be awarded in 2012 for the second time, recognizing the best novel translated into Dutch from another European language and published in 2011. Amongst the other nominated writers are Karl Ove Knausgård, … Read more
Mankell’s new introduction to Oliver Twist in The Telegraph
If Henning Mankell had to list the top ten novels of all time, Oliver Twist would surely be one of them.
– It is as if he (Charles Dickens) was sent to this earth with the sole purpose of writing this book, Mankell writes in his new introduction to Oliver Twist published in the The Telegraph.
Mankell highlights the scene where young Oliver takes his empty bowl and asks for more food as one of the most revolutionary acts ever depicted in … Read more
Chronicle: To read and write – a question of dignity
Some years ago I met, almost on a daily basis, a group of street children – boys only – who were living in the centre of Maputo. They made their living by helping cars finding somewhere to park and then they watched the cars. I imagine that this is a universal way to make a living for street children.
These boys, who were between seven and twelve years old, had no reason what so ever to trust grown-ups. They had been … Read more
The art of listening in The New York Times
I came to Africa with one purpose: I wanted to see the world outside the perspective of European egocentricity. I could have chosen Asia or South America. I ended up in Africa because the plane ticket there was cheapest.
I came and I stayed. For nearly 25 years I’ve lived off and on in Mozambique. Time has passed, and I’m no longer young; in fact, I’m approaching old age. But my motive for living this straddled existence, with one foot in … Read more
Chronicle: Why doesn’t Africa help its own people?
Swedish newspapers were recently full of images of politicians holding empty plates in front of themselves saying that they had donated their lunches to those plagued by starvation in the Horn of Africa. The NGO Diakonia initiated this campaign, and there is certainly nothing wrong with that. Who does not want to help?
What does it mean to starve? No one has said it better than the former head of SIDA (Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency) Bo Göransson, when he described … Read more
The Troubled Man favourite crime book of the year
The Sunday Book Review in the New York Times has chosen The Troubled Man as one of the favourite books in the list of Notable Crime Books of 2011.
”The final exit of a beloved sleuth is the focal point of my choice: THE TROUBLED MAN. Henning Mankell makes it clear that his brilliant if chronically depressed Swedish detective, Kurt Wallander, has solved his last case. In the course of investigating a political conspiracy that dates back to the cold … Read more