If you are intent on seeing Young Wallander as an interpretation of Mankell’s work, it is bound to fail in your eyes. It’s no interpretation; it’s an original work, really, and, since so ...

Wallander books are sold in 45 languages. There are television series and films based on the books in Sweden, as well as a version on the BBC, Wallander, starring Kenneth Branagh.

Wallander is trying to understand whether that’s a good thing. Writer Malcolm Gladwell says that you need to spend 10,000 hours on something before you can become an expert in it.

Source: SBS It’s rare that a genre gets it right the first time. Wallander didn’t just start a global fascination with Nordic noir; more than a decade on, it remains at the head of the pack.