Karl Stig-Erland "Stieg" Larsson (, Swedish: [¹kɑːɭ stiːɡ ¹æːɭand ¹lɑːʂɔn]; 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 four motion pictures in Sweden and the U.S. (for the first book only). The publisher commissioned David Lagercrantz to expand the trilogy into a longer series, which has 6 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.
He was the second best-selling fiction author in the world for 2008, behind the Afghan-American Khaled Hosseini. The third and final novel in the Millennium trilogy, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest, became the most sold book in the United States in 2010, according to Publishers Weekly. By March 2015, his series had sold 80 million copies worldwide.
“Folk har altid hemmeligheder. Det handler bare om at finde ud af hvilke.” - Lisbeth Salander
Mikael Blomkvist, journalist ved tidsskriftet Millennium, får en usædvanlig opfordring. Henrik Vanger, pensioneret direktør for Vangerkoncernen, vil have Mikael til at skrive slægtens historie. Men det viser sig snart, at familiekrøniken bare er et dække over Mikaels virkelige opgave: at finde ud af, hvad der skete med Henrik Vangers unge slægtning Harriet, som forsvandt for snart fyrre år siden.
Mikael Blomkvist påtager sig modvilligt opgaven, og til sin hjælp får han Lisbeth Salander, en umyndiggjort ung kvinde, tatoveret og piercet, en fantastisk researcher og landets bedste hacker. Sammen graver de dybt i familien Vangers fortid og møder en mørkere og blodigere historie, end nogen af dem kunne have anet.
MÆND DER HADER KVINDER er første bind i Millennium-serien om Lisbeth Salander og Mikael Blomkvist. Bogen fik i 2006 Glasnøglen for Nordens bedste kriminalroman.
Larsson imponerer hele vejen igennem med sin skarphed, intensitet og træfsikkerhed på samtlige niveauer. Fyens Stiftstidende
Det kendetegnende for Larsson er i det hele taget, at han er beskidt og moderne på en forfriskende måde… vildt tilfredsstillende. B.T.
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