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• Many people say I smile more in Africa than in Sweden.

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  People, Sweden, I Smile

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• Children get acquainted with each other in a special way, they do not make contracts as adults, they believe each other or not. Childish friendships often end in violence. You may become an enemy all of a sudden as well as notice that you are someone's best friend.

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  Children, Believe, Enemy

  FaceBook post by Henning Mankell from Oct 22, 2012

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• I can still remember the miraculous feeling of writing a sentence, then more sentences, telling a story. The first thing I wrote was a one-page summary of Robinson Crusoe and I am so sorry I do not have it any more; it was at that moment I became an author.

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  Sorry, Writing, Feelings

  FaceBook post by Henning Mankell from Mar 03, 2012

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• I am fascinated by all the new technology that creates places for us to meet in what is called cyberspace. I understand what it must have meant for the rebellions in the 19th century, especially in 1830 and 1848, when the mass circulated newspaper became so important for the spreading of information.

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  Technology, Important, Cyberspace

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• At the time of independence in 1975, Mozambique was extremely poor. Many Portuguese residents abandoned the country, leaving only a handful of well-educated Mozambicans to try to run the country.

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  Running, Country, Leaving

  "Henning Mankell's Mozambique". www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2010.

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• My mother did what many men do. She left.

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  Mother, Men, Left

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• Police work wouldn't be possible without coffee.

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  Coffee, Police Work, Police

  Henning Mankell (2013). “One Step Behind: A Kurt Wallander Mystery”, p.245, The New Press

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• When one historical period is replaced by another, there is
  always a group of people left over from the old society

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  People, Historical, Groups

  FaceBook post by Henning Mankell from Dec 11, 2012

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• Police work wouldn't be possible without coffee," Wallander said. "No work would be possible without coffee." They pondered the importance of coffee in silence.

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  Coffee, Police Work, Silence

  FaceBook post by Henning Mankell from Aug 27, 2011

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• Although I never marched through the streets shouting for Mao, I do believe that the liberation of China at the end of the 1940s was a wonderful thing and to provide its people with a billion pairs of shoes and trousers was a fantastic achievement.

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  Believe, Shoes, People

  "A life in writing: Henning Mankell" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• He was so excessively polite that Wallendar suspected he had endured many humiliations in his life.

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  Humiliation, Polite

  FaceBook post by Henning Mankell from Jul 05, 2013

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• I am not afraid of dying. I have lived longer than most people in the world. What scares me is to have a body that works but a brain that is waving goodbye. If that happens, I hope I die quickly.

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  Goodbye, People, Brain

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• Many words will be written on the wind and the sand, or end up in some obscure digital vault. But the storytelling will go on until the last human being stops listening. Then we can send the great chronicle of humanity out into the endless universe.

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  Wind, Humanity, Listening

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• As a writer, I am an intellectual. I believe in the ideals of the Enlightenment, I believe in the written word, in dialogue and in truth. I hate lies more than anything else. Most of the time I react by writing.

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  Hate, Lying, Believe

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• You think you know everything about a person, but the truth often comes as a surprise.

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  Thinking, Surprise, You Think You Know

  Henning Mankell, Ebba Segerberg (2013). “Before The Frost: A Linda Wallander Mystery”, p.274, The New Press

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• They pondered the importance of coffee in silence.

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  Coffee, Silence, Importance

  Henning Mankell (2013). “One Step Behind: A Kurt Wallander Mystery”, p.245, The New Press

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• Each person searches for the most beautiful jump which will be the final before leaving this world.

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  Beautiful, Leaving, Finals

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• I think my Wallander stories give a fairly good image of the world in the 1990s. I don't regret anything about that - on the contrary!

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  Regret, Thinking, Giving

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• Sweden is still a very peaceful country to live in. I think that people in Britain have created this mythology about Sweden, that it's a perfect democratic society full of erotically charged girls.

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  Girl, Country, Thinking

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• I work in an old tradition that goes back to the ancient Greeks. You hold a mirror to crime to see what's happening in society. I could never write a crime story just for the sake of it, because I always want to talk about certain things in society.

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  Writing, Mirrors, Greek

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• I'm not very much of a reader really, because I find much of it very bad, very uninteresting, very speculative.

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  Reader

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• Poverty always looks the same, no matter where you come across it. The rich can always express their opulence by varying their lives. Different houses, clothes, cars. Or thoughts, dreams. But for the poor there is nothing but compulsory grayness, the only form of expression available to poverty.

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  Dream, Expression, Clothes

  FaceBook post by Henning Mankell from Dec 28, 2012

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• Certainly, I know what it's like to be obsessed. I haven't always been there for my children. They could reach me, but I wasn't always there. But, you know, that's not necessarily anything to do with being a writer. I mean, a taxi driver could have the same problem... Maybe.

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  Children, Mean, Problem

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• Although many of his other novels are brilliant there is a power in 'Oliver Twist' that I believe Dickens never managed to retrieve. It is as if he was sent to this earth with the sole purpose of writing this book.

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  Believe, Book, Writing

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• Shakespeare is in many ways an African writer and 'Hamlet' would be seen as a very accurate historical saga about an African kingdom.

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  Historical, Would Be, Kingdoms

  "A life in writing: Henning Mankell" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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