Stieg Larsson

Quick Facts

Full Name	Stieg Larsson
Occupation	Novelist
Date Of Birth	Aug 15, 1954(1954-08-15)
Age	70
Date Of Death	2003-11-09
Birthplace	Skelleftehamn
Country	Sweden
Birth City	Västerbotten
Horoscope	Leo

Stieg Larsson Biography

Stieg Larsson is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on August 15, 1954 in Skelleftehamn, Västerbotten, Sweden. Swedish fiction writer whose acclaimed Millennium Trilogy was published after his death. The popular trilogy includes internationally acclaimed novels like The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest.

Rooney Mara portrayed Lisbeth Salander in the film version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. portrayed Lisbeth Salander in the film version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

Karl Stig-Erland “Stieg” Larsson (/s t iː ɡ ˈ l ɑːr s ə n / , Swedish: [ˈkɑːɭ stiːɡ ˈæ̌ːɭand ˈlɑ̌ːʂɔn] ; 15 August 1954 – 9 November 2004) was a Swedish journalist and writer. He is best known for writing the Millennium trilogy of crime novels, which were published posthumously, starting in 2005, after the author died suddenly of a heart attack. The trilogy was adapted as three motion pictures in Sweden, and one in the U.S. (for the first book only). The publisher commissioned David Lagercrantz to expand the trilogy into a longer series, which has six novels as of September 2019. For much of his life, Larsson lived and worked in Stockholm. His journalistic work covered socialist politics and he acted as an independent researcher of right-wing extremism.

Larsson’s first efforts at writing fiction were not in the genre of crime, but rather science fiction. An avid science-fiction reader from an early age, he became active in Swedish science-fiction fandom around 1971; he co-edited, with Rune Forsgren, his first fanzine, Sfären, in 1972; and he attended his first science-fiction convention, SF•72, in Stockholm. Through the 1970s, Larsson published around 30 additional fanzine issues; after his move to Stockholm in 1971, he became active in the Scandinavian SF Society, of which he was a board member in 1978 and 1979, and chairman in 1980.

He passed away from an attack on his heart in the year 2004 when he was forced to climb several levels of stairs due to the fact that the elevator in his office was inoperable.

Stieg Larsson Net Worth

Stieg Larsson is one of the richest Novelist from Sweden. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Stieg Larsson 's net worth $50 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He received an electronic typewriter on his 12th birthday. This gave him a new curiosity about writing, and he soon began writing sci-fi fan fiction.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was made into two separate films. One was starring The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was made into two different films, one of which starred Daniel Craig..

Stieg Larsson was born on 15 August 1954, as Karl Stig-Erland Larsson, in Skelleftehamn, Västerbottens län, Sweden, where his father and maternal grandfather worked in the Rönnskärsverken smelting plant. Suffering from arsenic poisoning, his father resigned from his job, and the family subsequently moved to Stockholm. Because of their cramped living conditions, though, they chose to let one-year-old Larsson remain behind. So until the age of nine, Larsson lived with his grandparents in a small wooden house in the countryside, near the village of Bjursele in Norsjö Municipality, Västerbotten County. He attended the village school and used cross-country skis to get to and from school during the long, snowy winters in northern Sweden. He loved the experience of living there.

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Who is Stieg Larsson Dating?

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His mother Vivianne also died early, in 1991, from complications with breast cancer and an aneurysm.

Facts & Trivia

Stieg Ranked on the list of most popular Novelist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Sweden. Stieg Larsson celebrates birthday on August 15 of every year.

Larsson’s political convictions, as well as his journalistic experiences, led him to found the Swedish Expo Foundation, similar to the British Searchlight Foundation, established to “counteract the growth of the extreme right and the white power culture in schools and among young people.” He also became the editor of the foundation’s magazine, Expo, in 1995.

Who finished Stieg Larsson's books?

The crime-fighting adventures of Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist are not over: David Lagercrantz , the Swedish author who took on Stieg Larsson’s creations after his death, is to write two more novels in the Millennium series.

What happened to Stig Larsson?

On November 9, 2004, Swedish writer Stieg Larsson dies suddenly of a heart attack at age 50 , only months after turning in the manuscripts for three crime thrillers—“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” “The Girl who Played with Fire” and “The Girl who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest”—which would later become international best- …

Who got Stieg Larsson's money?

Larsson’s estate including the literary estate was divided between his father, Erland and brother Joakim. One reason given for Eva and Stieg not marrying was security reasons. As a journalist, Stieg covered extremist groups and received multiple death threats.

What is the order of the Lisbeth Salander books?

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo(2005)
The Girl Who Played with Fire| (2006)
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest| (2007)
The Girl in the Spider’s Web| (2015)
The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye| (2017)

Will there be a 7th book in the Millennium series?

According to Sweden’s TV (SVT), The Girl Who Lived Twice, the sixth installment in the Millennium series of books featuring Mikael Blomqvist and Lisbeth Salander, will be the last to be written by David Lagercrantz.