Henning Mankell e escritor, diretor de teatro e dramaturgo. Nasceu em Estocolmo em 1948. Muito conhecido pelo seu personagem inspetor Kurt Wallander. Ha varios anos divide sua residencia entre a Suecia e Mocambique, onde dirige o Teatro Avenida em Maputo.Seu personagem o Inspetor Wallander tem uma caracteristica que o difere de muitos outros policiais, seu aspecto psicologico. Ele tem problemas com a filha, com o pai, com a ex-mulher. E tambem muito interessante e que Wallander se deixa emocionar com os quadros violentos que enfrenta como policial. Ele vivencia de forma intensa o casos em que atua.O personagem tambem ficou muito conhecido atraves da serie da BBC, que tem como ator Keneth Branagh. O livro Assassinos sem Rosto e muito bem construido porque parte de uma unica pista que e uma palavra sussurrada por uma das vitimas " Estrangeiro".A Companhia das Letras lancou varios livros de Henning Mankell, como:Assassinos sem Rosto (2001)A Leoa Branca (2002)Os Caes de Riga (2003)O Homem que Sorria (2006)O Guerreiro Solitario (2010)O Homem de Beijing (2011)A Quinta Mulher (2012)Site oficial do autor: www.henningmankell.com/ Manuel Alvarez Bravo, One of the founders of modern photography, is considered the main representative of Latin American photography in the 20th century. His work extends from the late 1920s to the 1990s.Alvarez Bravo was born in downtown Mexico City on February 4, 1902. He left school at the age of twelve in order to begin making a contribution to his familys finances after his father's death. He worked at a textile factory for a time, and later at the National General Treasury.Both his grandfather (a painter) and his father were amateur photographers. His early discovery of the camera awakened in him an interest that he would continue to cultivate throughout his life. As a self-taught photographer, he would explore many different techniques, as well as graphic art.Influenced by his study of painting at the Academy of San Carlos, he embraced pictorialism at first. Then, with the discovery of cubism and all the possibilities offered by abstraction, he began to explore modern aesthetics. He had his initiation into documentary photography in 1930: when she was deported from Mexico, Tina Modotti left him her job at the magazine Mexican Folkways. He also worked for the muralists Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros.Alvarez Bravo is an emblematic figure from the period following the Mexican Revolutionoften called the Mexican Renaissance. It was a time of a creative fertility, owing to the happythough not always tranquilmarriage between a desire for modernization and the search for an identity with Mexican roots, in which archaeology, history and ethnology played an important role, parallel to the arts. Alvarez Bravo embodied both tendencies in the field of visual arts.Between 1943 and 1959, he worked in the film industry doing still shots, which inspired him to realize some of his own experiments with cinema.While he was alive, he held over 150 individual exhibitions and participated in over 200 collective exhibitions. According to several critics, the work of this "poet of the lens" expresses the essence of Mexico. However, the humanist regard