I still have a photo on my wall of the greatest idol I will ever have in my life, and it’s myself at eight. Because that’s when the forces of imagination have the same value as the real world, when they’re an instrument of survival: when my mother disappeared, and I imagined a mother. That was me at my best. — Henning Mankell

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Mini who’s who:

Henning Mankell : Swedish Writer
Born:  February 3, 1948
Died:  October 5, 2015