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Karl Stig-Erland " Stieg " Larsson ( / stiːɡ ˈlɑːrsən /, Swedish: [ˈkɑːɭ stiːɡ ˈæ̌ːɭand ˈlɑ̌ːʂɔn]; 15 August 1954 – 9 November 2004) was a Swedish writer, journalist, and activist. He is best known for writing the Millennium trilogy of crime novels, which were published posthumously, starting in 2005, after he died of a ...
May 3, 2024 · Stieg Larsson (born August 15, 1954, Skelleftehamn, Sweden—died November 9, 2004, Stockholm) was a Swedish writer and activist whose posthumously published Millennium series of crime novels brought him international acclaim. Larsson grew up with his maternal grandparents in northern Sweden until age nine, when he rejoined his parents in ...
Karl Stig-Erland "Stieg" Larsson was a Swedish journalist, activist and writer. He remained a leftist throughout his life with his journalism encompassing communist and anti-fascist publications. He also independently researched on right-wing extremism.
Jan 30, 2024 · Stieg Larsson was born in Vasterbotten in northern Sweden in 1954. At the time of his birth, his parents were too young and too poor to keep him, so he was raised by his grandparents in a small village in the north of Sweden. Stieg’s grandfather, Severin Boström, became the male role model for the young Stieg.
Jun 3, 2010 · Swedish crime writer Stieg Larsson was on the verge of international fame and fortune when he died in 2004, right before the publication of his bestselling Millennium trilogy. NPR's Robert...
May 20, 2010 · Larsson died in November 2004 — at age 50 — before any of the novels were published and with little clue to just how successful they would be. Like Blomkvist, he was a journalist, well known in...
Jul 8, 2011 · Famous only in death, Larsson was a fervent feminist, an author of numerous books and articles about right-wing Swedish extremism, and a socialist to his core. As Gabrielsson explains, much of...
