Thanks To The Success Of Henning Mankell

Phantom' Was For Me An Interesting Technique Of Telling The Story. You Have One Voice That It Is In The Present Telling What Is Happening, And Then There's One Voice From The Past That's Also Driving The Story Forward. And You Know That The Two Story Lines Will Meet Eventually.

At Nineteen I Was Pretty Sure I Was Going To Be A Professional Soccer Player. At That Time I Played For One Of The Norwegian Premier Leagues. But I Tore Ligaments In Both Knees, So I Started Studying Business Administration And Economics And Became A Financial Analyst, And I Worked At A Brokerage Firm As A Stockbroker.

To Have The Chance Of Being Loved We Have To Take A Chance On Being Destroyed Inside

All My Friends Who Wanted To Write Had Got Nowhere Trying To Write The Great European Novel. So I Deliberately Steered Clear Of That And Set Out To Write Something Story-led.

When I Was A Teenager, My Father Went Bust. He Could Have Declared Himself Bankrupt, But He Was An Honourable Man And He Insisted On Paying Back All His Debts. That Almost Ruined The Family. I Was Aware That My Mother And Father Couldn't Control Things Anymore. I Guess I Was Afraid That We Would End Up On The Street.