Henning Mankell’s 7 Wonders
An interesting take by the creator of Wallander.
Enjoy!
Amplify’d from www.moreintelligentlife.com
7 WONDERS: HENNING MANKELL
Henning Mankell, a best-selling Swedish crime novelist, tells Rebecca Willis about his world …
Best known as creator of the detective Kurt Wallander (whom he says he wouldn’t like if he were real), Henning Mankell, 61, is also a playwright, theatre director and children’s author. He lives in Sweden and Mozambique, with “one foot in the snow and one in the sand”, and works with AIDS charities such as the Memory Book project, which helps parents leave their life stories for their children. These are the seven wonders of his world.
CITY: Timbuktu, Mali
JOURNEY: Aboriginal Australia
BEACH: Bubaque Islands, Guinea Bissau
WORK OF ART: “Nighthawks” by Edward Hopper
BUILDING: Amphitheatre, Thassos, Greece
VIEW: My wife (with sea)
HOTEL: Name unknown, Pemba, Mozambique
