Stieg Larsson
Karl Stig-Erland "
Stieg"
Larsson (, ; 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 sudden 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 . 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, owing to the success of the English translation of ''
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'', behind the Afghan-American
Khaled Hosseini. The third and final novel in the ''Millennium'' trilogy, ''
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest'', became the bestselling book in the United States in 2010, according to ''
Publishers Weekly''. By March 2015, his series had sold 80 million copies worldwide.
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