Henning Mankell at 2006 PEN World Voices

Henning Mankell has been published in thirty-five countries, with more than 25 million copies of his books in print.  He divides his time between Sweden and Maputo, Mozambique, where he works as the director of Teatro Avenida. 

World famous for his series of Kurt Wallander crime novels, Henning Mankell is equally devoted to the struggle against AIDS in Africa and has published several books, both fiction and non-fiction, on the subject.  I Die, But My Memory Lives On, published in 2005, is a deeply moving account of his personal responses to AIDS and its victims in sub-Saharan Africa.  Chronicler of the Winds, published by The New Press in April 2006, is a beautifully crafted novel and a testament to the power of storytelling itself.  It is the story of Nelio, a ten-year-old leader of street kids in an African port city, rumored to be a healer and a prophet, and possessed of a strangely ancient wisdom.

Henning Mankell will take part of three separate discussions at the 2006 PEN World Voices festival: 

A Quarter Century of HIV
Kaye Playhouse, Hunter College
68th Street between Park and Lexington Avenues
April 27, 2006, at 7 pm

Taking Crime Fiction Seriously
Italian Cultural Institute, 686 Park Avenue
April 28, 2006, at 6 pm

Conversation: Henning Mankell and Vera B. Williams
Pace University: 3 Spruce Street, Lecture Room North
April 30, 2006, at 2 pm

For more information on 2006 PEN World Voices: www.pen.org/worldvoices

For more information about Henning Mankell: www.henningmankell.com

Photo: Henning Mankell, © Ulla Montan