Stieg Larsson, officially Karl Stig-Erland Larsson ( 15 August born in Skelleftehamn outside Skellefteå, Stockholm, 1954 - 9 november 2004) was a Swedish journalist and author. He died at the age of fifty to a cardiac infarct.
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Activist[Edit][]
Initially Larsson a political activist for the Communist workers ' movement, the Kommunistika Arbetareförbundet, and photographer. Politics, he was active as an editor of the Swedish Trotskyist journal Fjärde internationalen. In addition, he worked on various science fiction magazines and during 1978-1979, he was President of the largest Swedish science fiction club, Skandinavisk In för Science Fiction (SADHU).
Journalist[Edit][]
In 1977, he started working for the largest Tidningarnas Telegrambyra (TT), Swedish news agency, first as a graphic artist, later as a journalist and writer of short biographies. He was founder of the anti-fascist Expo-foundation, which sought to racist and totalitarian ideas and organisations to denounce. From 1999 to 2002, he led the magazine Svartvitt med Expo and Expofrom 2002 to 2004. By its political opinions and work for Expo, he was regularly threatened.
Writer[Edit][]
When Larsson died of a heart attack at the age of fifty, he let three completed but unpublished manuscripts after. In 2001 he started for his fun with writing a detective novel as he came home in the evening of his work. He discovered his talent and began his third part already within two years. Only shortly before his death he began working on publication of his books. Appeared posthumously In 2005 his novel debut, the first part of the Millennium trilogy, "men who hate women ' (with the English title: ' The girl with The Dragon Tattoo '). Soon thereafter followed the other two parts. The series is published in dozens of countries and the three parts are also in the Dutch translation, by Alex Jaffray-Wade.
Larsson lived thirty years together with a partner: Eva Gabrielsson. In a will that Larsson had drawn up in 1977, he determined that his legacy to the Socialist Party of Sweden had to go. This will not, however, turned out to be legally valid according to the Swedish laws, because it was drawn up without witnesses. That is why the proceeds from his books now to his father and his brother. Eva Gabrielsson describes in her book that all the proceeds from Millennium in a joint company would be stopped.
Millennium trilogy[Edit][]
The Millennium series consists of three parts:
- Men who hate women 'Män som hatar kvinnor ()
- The girl who played with fire (Flickan som leaked med elden)
- Justice (In, in, literally: The Castle in the sky that was blown up)
After his death was also an unfinished fourth book found, as well as a synopsis for a fifth and sixth part. From notes of Larsson showed that there was a plan to eventually to write 10 books.
Larsson posthumously received several literary awards for his work. He was twice awarded the Glass Key, a prize for the best Nordic crime novel. This he got in 2006 for men who hate women and in 2008 forRighteousness. For the girl who played with fire in 2006, he won the Prize for the best crime novel of the Swedish Detective Academy and in 2008 the ITV3 Crime Thriller Award for International Author of the Year.
The first part of the series was filmed in 2009 as men who hate women. The second part came out in Netherlands on January 21, 2010 as the girl who played with fire and the third volume was released in March 2010 as Millennium 3: Justice. At the beginning of 2012 (19 January in the cinema) pops up the English-language film adaptation of the first book by David Fincher, called The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo [1] .