Stieg Larsson

Swedish author (1954–2004)

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Stieg Larsson was a Swedish author best known for writing the Millennium crime novel series, which includes "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" and became an international bestseller after his death in 2004. His work matters because it revitalized interest in Scandinavian crime fiction and influenced popular culture worldwide, despite Larsson dying before seeing his books' massive success.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 15 august 1954
Died: 9 november 2004
Works: 115

Top works

Mannen som sökte sin skugga
Luftslottet som sprängdes
Los hombres que no amaban a las mujeres
Män som hatar kvinnor
Regency Scandal : Unsuitable Marriages

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Writing · Skelleftehamn, Sweden

Karl Stig-Erland "Stieg" Larsson (August 15, 1954 – November 9, 2004) was a Swedish journalist and writer. He is best known for writing the Millennium trilogy of crime novels, which were published posthumously and adapted as motion pictures. Description above from the Wikipedia Stieg Larsson licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

Stieg Larsson - Mannen som lekte med elden — Self (archive footage)2019
The Stieg Larsson Story — Self2011
White Terror — Self - Editor of "Expo"2005

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Sweden
Active from: 1954
Active to: 2004

audio dramaaudiobookhas german audiobooks

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Listeners: 8,336
Total plays: 428,283

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,384x
The cBio Cancer Genomics Portal: An Open Platform for Exploring Multidimensional Cancer Genomics Data
· 2012 · cited 14,961x
Integrative Analysis of Complex Cancer Genomics and Clinical Profiles Using the cBioPortal
· 2013 · cited 11,903x
Predicting transmembrane protein topology with a hidden markov model: application to complete genomes11Edited by F. Cohen
· 2001 · cited 11,472x
Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 7,746x

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Official website: stieglarsson.com

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date of birth: 1954-08-15
date of death: 2004-11-09
name in native language: Stieg Larsson
start of work period: 1990-00-00
Commons category: Stieg Larsson

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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 far-left activist. He is best known for writing the first trilogy in the Millennium series of crime novels, which was 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 United States (for the first book only). Larsson had conceived of ten books in the series; the publisher commissioned David Lagercrantz to write the next trilogy, and Karin Smirnoff to write the third trilogy in the series, which has eight novels as of December 2025. 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 Afghan-American novelist 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.