XXIII edition
10/15 December 2013
EDITORIALS
NEWS
PROGRAM
FILMS
WRITERS
Scerbanenco
Conversations
Chandler Award
EVENTS
HONORARY AWARDS
GALLERY
NEWS
PROGRAM
FILMS
WRITERS
Scerbanenco
Conversations
Chandler Award
EVENTS
HONORARY AWARDS
GALLERY
Raymond Chandler Award 2013
Henning Mankell was born February 3, 1948 in Stockholm, and shortly thereafter moved to Sveg with his father, a judge. At the age of 16, he joined the merchant marines and two years later moved to Paris. When he returned to Sweden he worked as an assistant director at Stockholm’s Riksteater, and later collaborated with several theatres in Sweden.
His first short story was published in 1973, the year that marked the first of many trips to Africa. He has been artistic director of the Teatro Avenida, in Maputo, Mozambique, since 1986.
Mördare utan ansikte the first of the series of crime novels featuring Kurt Wallander, a police inspector in the small Swedish town of Ystad came out in 1991 and won the Glass Key Award, given annually to a crime novel by a Nordic author. (The Eng. translation, Faceless Killers, was published in 1997). Three different television versions of the series have been made: two Swedish and one, the most internationally renowned, by the BBC, starring Kenneth Branagh as Wallander. The inspector has also appeared on the big screen several times, played by both Swedish actors Rolf Lassgård and Krister Henriksson.
Mankell has written over 40 books that have sold over 40 million copies. Besides his crime novels, including those that do not feature Wallander (e.g., The Man from Beijing), Mankell has written children’s books and non-crime fiction, such as Italian Shoes. His plays are moreover among the most produced in Sweden.
Mankell is also well known for his social activism: along with initiating various cultural and training programmes for children in Africa, in 2001 he founded the Leopard Förlag publishing company in order to support young talent from Africa and Sweden. On May 31, 2010 he was part of the Freedom Flotilla of ships bringing humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip; the ships were boarded by Israeli naval commandos in an operation that left nine peace activists dead. In 2013, he spoke at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
He is married to theatre and television director Eva Bergman, daughter of Ingmar Bergman, since 1998. In June 2008 he was awarded an honorary Doctorate from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.
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13/12/2013 h 17:00: Jardin de l'Ange In cooperation with Marsilio Editore Presented by Giancarlo De Cataldo and Sebastiano Triulzi
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