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Henning Mankell

I am a very radical person – as radical now as I was when I was younger. So my books all have in common my search for understanding of the terrible world we are living in and ways to change it.

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Henning Mankell

I’m not very much of a reader really, because I find much of it very bad, very uninteresting, very speculative.

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Henning Mankell

I can still remember. I was ill, and I was seven, and my father didn’t want me to just read children’s books. He came with Conan Doyle. I tried, and I liked it. I think the first I read was ‘The Sign of the Four’; ‘Study in Scarlet’ was the next one. Then I guess I stayed home a few extra days from school to read.

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Henning Mankell

Well, I believe that life is very complicated. And in a way, the only way you can show life in a truthful way is to show how complicated it is as an individual, but also your relation between a complicated life and the complications you have inside you.

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Henning Mankell

I would say that during my lifetime, one of the worst political scandals in Sweden was absolutely what happened surrounding the affair of the submarines in Swedish waters in 1982, where there were supposed to be Russian submarines close to Stockholm. And the military of Sweden never got one up.

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Henning Mankell

One of the agonies of being an author is to know when to stop writing.

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Henning Mankell

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 spend their early lives in ghastly institutions.

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Henning Mankell

Although many of his other novels are brilliant there is a power in ‘Oliver Twist’ that I believe Dickens never managed to retrieve. It is as if he was sent to this earth with the sole purpose of writing this book.

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Henning Mankell

When someone asks me to list the 10 best novels ever written, I always refuse to answer.

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Henning Mankell

I work every day until I do not have more to say. I learned from Graham Greene that a very good way is to stop work in the middle of a sentence. Then you know exactly how to continue the day after.

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Henning Mankell

I think my Wallander stories give a fairly good image of the world in the 1990s. I don’t regret anything about that – on the contrary!

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Henning Mankell

There is always a sacred hour in the theatre – after rehearsals and before performances, in the afternoon, between three and five o’clock. Normally the theatre is empty then, and this is a wonderful hour.

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