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Events below the Surface: A Reading of Henning Mankell’s The Troubled Man
Published 2020-12-01“… ABSTRACT: Den orolige mannen (2009) [The Troubled Man, 2011] is Henning Mankell’s twelfth and last Kurt Wallander novel. …”
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Kurt Wallander’s Journey into Autumn: A Reading of Henning Mankell's The Fifth Woman
Published 2007-12-01“… ABSTRACT: The last decade has been a golden age of detective fiction in the four Scandinavian countries: Sweden; Denmark; Norway; and Iceland. If Henning Mankell stands in the first rank of Nordic mystery writers, it is because he takes the type of book known in Sweden as a “deckare” and gives it the complexity of a superior novel. …”
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Mördaren i garderoben
Published 2009-01-01“…This article investigates themes of masculinity and sexuality in two Scandinavian crime narratives, One Step Behind (Steget efter) by Henning Mankell and Night Sister (Nattsystern) by Unni Lindell. …”
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Voicing memories
Published 2017-12-01“…To get into the Nordic mood to write for a journal coming out of Scandinavia, I scrolled to one of Henning Mankell’s famous detectives, Kurt Wallander. On the verge of sleep, somewhere between consciousness and unconsciousness – like memory itself – I listened to Wallander, through his narrator, listening to the room at the scene of the crime, waiting for it to speak to him, to voice what had happened there. …”
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The Laughing Policeman /
Published 2007“…These are the original detective stories that pioneered the detective genre and inspired writers from Agatha Christie to Henning Mankell; Graham Greene to Jonathan Franzen. Translated into 35 languages, they have sold over 10 million copies around the world. …”
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“Far Darker than the IKEA Paradise of Sensible Volvos”: American Perceptions of Sweden Filtered Through Crime Fiction
Published 2015-09-01“…Books by authors such as Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell have enjoyed a great deal of popularity in the United States in recent years, and institutions such as the Swedsh Institute in Stockholm have expressed the hope that this popularity will result in greater interest in and knowledge about Sweden. …”
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The Man on the Balcony /
Published 2007“…These are the original detective stories that pioneered the detective genre and inspired writers from Agatha Christie to Henning Mankell; Graham Greene to Jonathan Franzen. Translated into 35 languages, they have sold over 10 million copies around the world. …”
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Wallander's Dark Geopolitics
Published 2020-09-01“…The overarching premise for this article is to explore the extent to which Henning Mankell's crime novels and their adaptations engage the character Wallander's own and “other” worlds with a cosmopolitan perspective, by considering the mutations of Wallander's fictional local world as intricately tied to discursive geopolitical realities of the post–Cold War world. …”
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Adaptación audiovisual e hibridación discursiva. Las series Wallander como paradigma
Published 2022-11-01“…Este trabajo aborda la cuestión a partir de la doble adaptación (para público sueco-alemán en formato cine y para público británico en formato TV) de una misma novela de Henning Mankell, La 5ª mujer. …”
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Mobile characters, mobile texts: homelessness and intertextuality in contemporary texts for young people
Published 2013-06-01“…This article considers three novels from three different national traditions to address the work of intertextuality in narratives about homelessness: Skellig by UK author David Almond, which was published in 1998; Chronicler of the Winds by Swedish author Henning Mankell, which was first published in 1988 in Swedish as Comédia Infantil and published in an English translation in 2006; and Stained Glass by Canadian author Michael Bedard, which was published in 2002. …”
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