Stieg Larsson (1954–2004)
Author of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
About the Author
Prior to his sudden death of a heart attack in November 2004, Stieg Larsson finished three detective novels in his Millenium series. Before his career as a writer, Stieg Larsson was mostly known for his struggle against racism and right-wing extremism. In the middle of the 1980s he helped start the show more anti-violence project "Stop the Racism". This was followed by the founding of the Expo foundation in 1995. In 1999 he was appointed the chief editor of Expo, a magazine published by the organization. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Image credit: Stieg Larsson foto by Jan Colsiöö/scanpix
Series
Works by Stieg Larsson
Millennium series 6 Books Complete Collection Box Set by Stieg Larsson & David Lagercrantz (Books 1 - 6) (2020) 4 copies
[unidentified works] 4 copies
The Girl Who Played With Fire (Millennium Trilogy 2) by Stieg Larsson (4-Jun-2015) Paperback 3 copies
Los hombres que no amaban a las mujeres (Millennium 1): Una novela de Lisbeth Salander (Bestseller) (2023) 2 copies
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- Legal name
- Larsson, Karl Stig-Erland
- Other names
- Στιγκ Λάρσον
- Birthdate
- 1954-08-15
- Date of death
- 2004-11-09
- Burial location
- Högalid Church Cemetery, Södermalm, Stockholm, Sweden
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Sweden
- Birthplace
- Skelleftehamn, Sweden
- Place of death
- Stockholm, Sweden
- Cause of death
- heart attack
- Places of residence
- Stockholm, Sweden
- Occupations
- graphic designer
journalist
editor
crime novelist - Relationships
- Gabrielsson, Eva (partner)
- Organizations
- Tidningarnas Telegrambyrå
Expo
Skandinavisk Förening för Science Fiction
Swedish Army - Awards and honors
- General Council of the Judiciary, Spain (Contribution to the Fight against Domestic Violence ∙ 2009)
- Agent
- Ben Ringel
- Short biography
- Stieg Larsson (15 August 1954 - 9 November 2004) was a Swedish journalist and writer, active in left wing politics. He was born in Skelleftehamn outside Skellefteå, Sweden as Karl Stig-Erland Larsson. He is notable for his authorship of the Millennium series of crime novels which are being successfully published posthumously. Larsson was initially a political activist for the Kommunistiska Arbetareförbundet (Communist Workers League), a photographer, and one of Sweden's leading science fiction fans. In politics he was the editor of the Swedish Trotskyist journal Fjärde internationalen. He also wrote regularly for the weekly Internationalen. As a science fiction fan, he was co-editor or editor of several fanzines, including Sfären, Fijagh! and others; in 1978-1979 he was President of the largest Swedish science fiction fan club, Skandinavisk Förening för Science Fiction (SFSF). Larsson worked as a graphic designer at the largest Swedish news agency, Tidningarnas Telegrambyrå (TT) between 1977 and 1999. Larsson died in Stockholm at the age of 50 of a massive heart attack.
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Reviews
Flickan som lekte med elden by Stieg Larsson
Crackerjack suspense, interesting characters and good writing, a rare and welcome commodity in this genre. I am eagerly awaiting the last book in the series. Anyone heading over the Pond?
Crackerjack suspense from the late Swedish author and rabble rouser http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article4...
Loved it as I have each of the series and only would have more Salander in the bulk of the book and less SAPO history. But it is a rousing good yarn, 600 pages of which I read in a couple of days. So sad that this marks the end of the story.
This book was frankly really disappointing. After a strong start in the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the series seems to have taken a turn towards bored, fairly contrived plotlines. There was very little mystery or suspense in this book, and much of it was spent watching uninteresting characters puttering around trying to "solve" a crime by arguing with one another about whether Salander is a "good person." Blomkvist in particular is a fairly illogical character in this book, basically putting his entire life on hold in order to follow through on his conviction that a strange girl who he knew for a couple months (who then disappeared and stopped talking to him for over a year), must be innocent. Futhermore, the stories of many of the minor characters in the book, including Miriam, Paulo, Berger, Bublanski, etc. were all kind of random, uninteresting, and didn't have almost anything to do with the story.
I appreciate setting the stage, but somehow that is all this book was - it lost the mystery, thrill, and intrigue of the previous novel.… (more)
I appreciate setting the stage, but somehow that is all this book was - it lost the mystery, thrill, and intrigue of the previous novel.… (more)
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Statistics
- Works
- 39
- Also by
- 8
- Members
- 100,968
- Popularity
- #89
- Rating
- 4.1
- Reviews
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- ISBNs
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