Stieg Larsson
Stieg Larsson
Karl Stig-Erland "Stieg" Larssonwas a Swedish journalist and writer. He is best known for writing the Millennium trilogy of crime novels, which were published posthumously and adapted as motion pictures. Larsson lived much of his life in Stockholm and worked there in the field of journalism and as an independent researcher of right-wing extremism...
NationalitySwedish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth15 August 1954
CountrySweden
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Every year Swedish society produces a new generation of threatened women who can testify to the lack of legal rights and the lukewarm interest shown by the police and other authorities.
entertainment forms stories
Crime stories are, as you know, one of the most popular forms of entertainment that exist. If you then try to have something to say... that I have, of course.
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In many respects I have gone out of my way to avoid the usual approach adopted in crime novels. I have used some techniques that are normally outlawed - the presentation of Mikael Blomkvist, for instance, is based exclusively on the personal case study made by Lisbeth Salander.
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I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since the nineties.
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In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.