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
Millenium 1 (Paperback) Les Hommes Qui N'Aimaient Pas Les Femmes (French Edition) (BABEL NOIR) (1988) 8 copies, 1 review
Millennium series 6 Books Complete Collection Box Set by Stieg Larsson & David Lagercrantz (Books 1 - 6) (2020) 6 copies
[unidentified works] 4 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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Има книги, които те грабват с историята си, с героите, с разказа. Има и книги, които ги прочиташ само за да видиш какво ще стане накрая. Тази, за съжаление, е от втория вид.
След като гледах два от филмите по трилогията, дойде ред и на една от книгите, които бяха яко хвалени навсякъде. Стиг Ларсон обаче е журналист и пише като журналист, а не като писател. 600-те страници на книгата са пълни главно с напрежение, създавано всячески, с технически подробности относно всяко действие на главни и особено на второстепенни и епизодични герои, с всякакви детайли.
Книгата е интересна за четене, увлича, но няма развитие, централна тема и как да кажа... душа. Тя е просто списък от безброй събития, навързани от покачващо се напрежение - самоцелен трилър, в който нито образите на героите са развити, нито събитията са описани кой-знае колко интересно.
За пореден път се убеждавам, че медийният хайп, особено за книги, не предвещава нещо добро. Не лоша книга, с голям потенциал (особено що се отнася до героите), но авторът е слаб писател и не се виждам да я прочета пак някога.
P.S. А супер-хакерката, която ползва мак, е просто черешка в тортата на смешния шведски социал-демократизъм, лъхащ от всяка страница ;)… (more)
След като гледах два от филмите по трилогията, дойде ред и на една от книгите, които бяха яко хвалени навсякъде. Стиг Ларсон обаче е журналист и пише като журналист, а не като писател. 600-те страници на книгата са пълни главно с напрежение, създавано всячески, с технически подробности относно всяко действие на главни и особено на второстепенни и епизодични герои, с всякакви детайли.
Книгата е интересна за четене, увлича, но няма развитие, централна тема и как да кажа... душа. Тя е просто списък от безброй събития, навързани от покачващо се напрежение - самоцелен трилър, в който нито образите на героите са развити, нито събитията са описани кой-знае колко интересно.
За пореден път се убеждавам, че медийният хайп, особено за книги, не предвещава нещо добро. Не лоша книга, с голям потенциал (особено що се отнася до героите), но авторът е слаб писател и не се виждам да я прочета пак някога.
P.S. А супер-хакерката, която ползва мак, е просто черешка в тортата на смешния шведски социал-демократизъм, лъхащ от всяка страница ;)… (more)
Usually not the kind of book that I would read, but this one was pretty entertaining. It was a little dark, but I had fun reading it. I'd give it 3 1/2 if I could.
"Nobody was innocent. There were only varying degrees of responsibility"
I love this series. I wish I could pin point exactly why....I think maybe because it completely surprises me with the ugliest side of people. The plot is twisted and intricate and also surprises me. I can never guess the end or even how we will get there.
But mostly, I think it's because I love Salander and Blomkvis. I did love the other supporting characters we spent time with but I still love Lisbeth and Mikael the most.
It will be weeks before I can get to book 3. But I will.
and a book 4?? Yes, yes please :)… (more)
I love this series. I wish I could pin point exactly why....I think maybe because it completely surprises me with the ugliest side of people. The plot is twisted and intricate and also surprises me. I can never guess the end or even how we will get there.
But mostly, I think it's because I love Salander and Blomkvis. I did love the other supporting characters we spent time with but I still love Lisbeth and Mikael the most.
It will be weeks before I can get to book 3. But I will.
and a book 4?? Yes, yes please :)… (more)
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It’s a long but engrossing book about the mysterious disappearance of a teenage girl and the deaths of a series of other women, which a journalist (Mikael Blomkvist) is paid to investigate, although the events took place in the fairly distant past and were long ago dropped by the police.
Blomkvist accepts the help of an eccentric young tattooed woman (Lisbeth Salander) who happens to be an expert at infiltrating computer systems, and the two of them are the main characters of the story. There's an unrelated subplot about a crooked businessman (Hans-Erik Wennerström), who at the start of the book has just won a libel action against Blomkvist.
The story takes place partly in Stockholm and partly in and around the fictional town of Hedestad, on the coast “a little more than an hour north of Gävle”.
As I’ve lived in Stockholm myself, I was amused to recognize a number of the street names and a restaurant referred to in the text. Familiarity with Sweden in general and with Stockholm in particular isn’t necessary when reading this book, but it adds a little something.
The book gives a distinctly unflattering portrait of Swedish society. Readers may come away with the impression that most Swedish men are evil or unpleasant, and that Swedish women are eager to jump into bed with the first non-evil man they can find, but are touchy, unpredictable, and hard to cope with.
My own impression of real-life Swedish men and women has been completely different. However, our hero Blomkvist is relatively normal, and similar in personality to some Swedish men I’ve known.
There’s some unpleasant violence in this book, most of it in the past and so not described vividly, but some of it happens in the present in the course of the story.
On two occasions in the book, Salander (who is unusually small and thin) physically attacks evil men and gets away with it. Although in both cases she has a weapon of some kind and her opponent hasn’t, at close quarters a weapon can be countered by an unarmed man with quick reactions, so I reckon that some goddess must give her luck when she needs it.
This book has an interesting story to tell, and it’s a page-turner once it gets going, but it’s not really my kind of novel (it was given to me as a present). The best thing about it is the character of Lisbeth Salander, who’s eccentric, touchy, unpredictable, and aggressive, but intelligent and courageous and somehow likeable underneath. I don’t feel an active desire to meet any of the other characters again. Blomkvist is amiable but, as a hero, not particularly interesting.
(Review written in 2009)… (more)