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Henning Mankell
Swedish writer, human rights activist and dramatist (1948–2015)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 3 February 1948
- Died
- 5 October 2015
- Place of birth
- Stockholm
- Place of death
- Gothenburg
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Mankell
- Father
- Ivar Mankell
- Spouse
- Eva Bergman
- Child
- Jon Mankell
- Field of work
- detective novel, children's and young adult literature, drama
- Occupation
- writer, playwright, children's writer, crime fiction writer, screenwriter, film director, human rights defender, theatre director
- Citizenship
- Sweden
- Native language
- Swedish
- Awards
- Glass Key award, Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis, Golden Feather, Litteris et Artibus, Riverton International Honour Prize, Grand Prix de Littérature Policière, Nils Holgersson Plaque, Best Swedish Crime Novel Award, Prix Mystère de la Critique, Erich-Maria-Remarque Peace Prize, Corine Literature Prize, Gumshoe Awards
- affiliation
- Leopard förlag
- affiliation string
- Leopard Förlag
- bibliography
- Henning Mankell bibliography
- birth name
- Henning Georg Mankell
- cause of death
- lung cancer
- described by source
- Iedereen Leest
- documentation files at
- SAPA Foundation, Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts
- end of work period
- 2015
- has works in the collection
- Nationalmuseum
- languages spoken, written or signed
- Swedish
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- Henning Mankell
- nominated for
- Nordic Council Literature Prize
- notable work
- Faceless Killers, The Dogs of Riga, The White Lioness, The Man Who Smiled, Sidetracked, The Fifth Woman, One Step Behind, Firewall, The Pyramid, Before the Frost, An Event in Autumn, The Troubled Man
- participant in
- World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2013
- place of burial
- Örgryte old cemetery
- start of work period
- 1973
- topic's main category
- Category:Henning Mankell
- writing language
- Swedish
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