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General Category => Literature, Music, Art & Entertainment => Topic started by: Shaker on October 05, 2015, 11:47:22 AM

Title: Henning Mankell dies aged 67
Post by: Shaker on October 05, 2015, 11:47:22 AM

I don't know if there are any other Wallander fans here but his creator, Henning Mankell, has died. He was diagnosed with cancer last year.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-34442252

Title: Re: Henning Mankell dies aged 67
Post by: Dicky Underpants on October 06, 2015, 03:55:35 PM

Quote from: Shaker on October 05, 2015, 11:47:22 AM

I don't know if there are any other Wallander fans here but his creator, Henning Mankell, has died. He was diagnosed with cancer last year.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-34442252

Sad news. I liked the Wallander TV series very much (especially with the part played by Krista Henriksson*). I understand that Mankell had links with South Africa and was a great humanitarian.

*The earlier series, shown later here, starring  Rolf Lassgård, was also very good, but didn't convey the sensitive streak that was written into the Wallander character. I wonder how many people have named their dogs after an operatic tenor?

Title: Re: Henning Mankell dies aged 67
Post by: Shaker on January 30, 2016, 02:46:29 PM

Quote from: Dicky Underpants on October 06, 2015, 03:55:35 PM

Sad news. I liked the Wallander TV series very much (especially with the part played by Krista Henriksson*). I understand that Mankell had links with South Africa and was a great humanitarian.

*The earlier series, shown later here, starring  Rolf Lassgård, was also very good, but didn't convey the sensitive streak that was written into the Wallander character. I wonder how many people have named their dogs after an operatic tenor?

Thread resurrected because some previously unseen pieces by HM have now been published, forming an extended meditation on his cancer diagnosis and impending death:

http://goo.gl/G8SQdP