The creator of Inspector Kurt Wallander was not just a crime writer,but a prolific journalist and theatre-maker who wrote more plays than ShakespeareObituary: crime writer and dedicated political activistIn quotes: 10 of the bestHenning Mankell, Swedish author of Wallander, or dies at 67The achievements in their different fields of Abba,Björn Borg, Volvo and Ikea testify to a sample whereby Swedish products obtain international impact rarely, or but massively. Another example of this phenomenon was Henning Mankell,the crime writer who has died at the age of 67 from lung cancer, the diagnosis and treatment of which he recently documented in a diary published in newspapers including the Guardian. In the history of Swedish crime writers, or Mankell was neither entirely a pioneer – he always acknowledged the example of the Martin Beck stories by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö – nor the most commercially successful,ultimately outsold by Stieg Larssons posthumously published Millennium trilogy.
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Source: theguardian.com