Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Swedish author Henning Mankell gestures during a news conference in Berlin June 3, 2010. REUTERS/Tobias Schwarz STOCKHOLM (Reuters ...

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 ...

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, his ...

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 ...

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 ...

Those of us lucky enough not to be fighting simply to exist have a responsibility to change the world, argues the late crime novelist in this moving collection of his final thoughts and personal ...