Henning Mankell · Spotify · Courtesy of Spotify
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 3 February 1948
- Died
- 2015-10-05
- Works
- 310
Top works
- Tea-bag
- Mannen som log
- after the fire
- La quinta donna. Le inchieste del commissario Kurt Wallander vol. 6
- Wspomnienia brudnego aniola (Polish Edition)
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- Sweden
- Active from
- 1868
- Active to
- 1930
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 6,009
- Total plays
- 218,794
Tags
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Henning Mankell (born 3 February 1948) is an internationally known Swedish author of crime fiction, children's books as well as plays. He is best known for the character Kurt Wallander. Mankell was born in Stockholm, and grew up in the Swedish towns of Sveg (Härjedalen) and Borås (Västergötland). Mankell's father Ivar was a judge and his grandfather, also called Henning Mankell (1868–1930), was a composer. At the age of 20 he already started a career as author and assistant director at the Riks
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Henning
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Sweden
- Place of death
- Oscar Parish
- Sibling
- Carl Abraham Mankell
- Occupation
- music director
- Student of
- Lennart Lundberg
- Instrument
- piano
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- date of birth
- 1868-06-03
- date of death
- 1930-05-08
- place of burial
- Norra begravningsplatsen
- member of
- Royal Swedish Academy of Music
- medical condition
- diabetes
- cause of death
- diabetes
- Commons category
- Henning Mankell (tonsättare)
- described by source
- Dictionary of Swedish National Biography
- relative
- Carl Abraham Mankell
- manner of death
- natural causes
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