Henning Mankell, the Swedish author best known for writing the “Wallander” crime novels, died Monday. He was 67. “He died in his sleep early this morning in Göteborg,” a statement posted on his ...

It’s not easy for an author to catch on across borders, but Swedish crime novelist Henning Mankell did it, all on the strength of a single character. Although Mankell wrote novels and plays about many ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... STOCKHOLM — Henning Mankell, the internationally renowned Swedish crime writer whose books about the gloomy, soul-searching police inspector Kurt Wallander ...

Henning Mankell, the internationally renowned Swedish crime writer whose books about the gloomy, soul-searching police inspector Kurt Wallander enticed readers around the world, died early Monday. He ...

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Henning Mankell, the internationally renowned Swedish crime writer whose books about the gloomy, soul-searching police inspector Kurt Wallander enticed readers around the world, died ...

CANNES — Swedish crime writer Henning Mankell, who was a leading figure in the wave of “Nordic Noir” fiction and whose books sold more than 40 million copies, died in Goteborg, Sweden, on Monday at ...

Swedish author Henning Mankell gestures during a news conference in Berlin June 3, 2010. REUTERS/Tobias Schwarz STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Best-selling Swedish writer Henning Mankell, author of the Kurt ...

The author Henning Mankell, who died Monday at 67 from lung cancer, came up with the idea for Kurt Wallander after he returned to Sweden from Africa in the late 1980s and was shocked by the racism he ...

STOCKHOLM — Henning Mankell, one of the world’s top-selling crime writers in recent years, says he has cancer. The Swedish author, who turns 66 on Feb. 3, wrote on his website Wednesday that he ...

The Swedish writer Henning Mankell's new novel, The Troubled Man, is another installment of his long-running series about Kurt Wallander, a police detective who works in the southernmost part of ...

CANNES — Swedish crime writer Henning Mankell, who was a leading figure in the wave of “Nordic Noir” fiction and whose books sold more than 40 million copies, died in Goteborg, Sweden, on Monday at ...