Life Events
| Date | Event | Details |
|---|---|---|
15 August 1954 | Birth | Born in Skellefteå, Sweden, Stieg Larsson spent his career as an investigative journalist exposing far-right extremism and co-founded Expo magazine to monitor neo-Nazi networks across Europe. In his spare time he wrote the Millennium trilogy - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest - submitting all three manuscripts to his publisher shortly before his death. |
9 November 2004 | Death | Larsson died of a heart attack on 9 November 2004 in Stockholm, aged 50, never knowing the global phenomenon he had created. The trilogy was published posthumously between 2005 and 2007 and has sold over 100 million copies worldwide. Lisbeth Salander became one of the most iconic characters in contemporary crime fiction. |
Birth15 August 1954
Born in Skellefteå, Sweden, Stieg Larsson spent his career as an investigative journalist exposing far-right extremism and co-founded Expo magazine to monitor neo-Nazi networks across Europe. In his spare time he wrote the Millennium trilogy - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest - submitting all three manuscripts to his publisher shortly before his death.
Death9 November 2004
Larsson died of a heart attack on 9 November 2004 in Stockholm, aged 50, never knowing the global phenomenon he had created. The trilogy was published posthumously between 2005 and 2007 and has sold over 100 million copies worldwide. Lisbeth Salander became one of the most iconic characters in contemporary crime fiction.
Series (1)
Books (3)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Millennium
2005
Mikael Blomkvist, convicted of libel against a powerful financier, is hired by elderly industrialist Henrik Vanger to investigate the decades-old disappearance of his niece Harriet from the isolated Hedeby Island. Blomkvist enlists Lisbeth Salander, a state-appointed ward with a photographic memory and exceptional skill as a researcher and hacker. What begins as a cold case investigation uncovers a history of family violence, Nazi sympathies, and serial murder stretching back forty years.
The Girl Who Played with Fire
Millennium
2006
Lisbeth Salander disappears from Stockholm as two journalists investigating sex trafficking are murdered - and her fingerprints are found on the weapon. Blomkvist refuses to believe she is guilty and investigates independently while the police hunt her. Salander, meanwhile, is pursuing her own quarry: the man known only as Zalachenko, whose connection to her past is the key to everything.