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Henning Mankell
Sweden
Read some of his non-Wallander novels – for example Depths, The Man from Beijing, or Italian Shoes – and you can see quite how impressive a writer Mankell is, and why he has sold 30m books. But it was the creation of Inspector Kurt Wallander that made Mankell so popular, turned Ystad into a tourist destination and started the phenomenal worldwide interest in Scandinavian crime writing, and gloom. “I’m not sure melancholia is a dominant trait of Swedish or Scandinavian literature,” Mankell has said. There’s plenty of it, though, in the 10 Wallander novels
賀寧·曼凱爾
瑞典
讀一讀曼凱爾并非以沃藍德為主角的其他小說，比如《死亡》，《北京來的男人》或《一雙意大利鞋子》，你就能了解他是一個多么令人印象深刻的作家，以及為什么他能賣出3000萬本小說了。但使曼凱爾聲名鵲起的，還是偵探沃藍德這個人物的創造，而小說中作為場景的Ystad城從此也變成了一個旅游勝地，另外就是他由此開啟了北歐犯罪小說在全世界讀者中的興趣——連帶其陰郁風格。“我并不確定憂郁是瑞典或北歐文學的一個主導特征，”曼凱爾曾說。但是在他的10本沃藍德偵探小說中，確實有夠料的憂郁成分。
