In the 'Millennium Trilogy' by Stieg Larsson, all the novels begin with which two words?
"Up""), published in English as ""The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest"", was published in the United Kingdom in October 2009 and the United States in May 2010. Larsson left about three quarters of a fourth novel on a notebook computer, now possessed by his partner, Eva Gabrielsson: synopses or manuscripts of the fifth and sixth in the series, which he intended to comprise an eventual total of ten books, may also exist. Gabrielsson has stated in her book, """"There Are Things I Want You to Know"" About Stieg Larsson and Me"" (2011) that she is capable of finishing the"
"Lisbeth Salander Lisbeth Salander is a fictional character created by Swedish author and journalist Stieg Larsson. She is the lead character in Larsson's award-winning ""Millennium"" series, along with the journalist Mikael Blomkvist. Salander first appeared in the 2005 novel ""The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"" (original Swedish title, ""Män som hatar kvinnor"", literally ""Men who hate women"" in English). She reappeared in its sequels: ""The Girl Who Played with Fire"" (2006), ""The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest"" (2007), ""The Girl in the Spider's Web"" (2015), and ""The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye"" (2017). In the only"
"Mikael Blomkvist Mikael Blomkvist is a fictional character created by Swedish author and journalist Stieg Larsson. He is a main character of Larsson's award-winning ""Millennium"" series, along with Lisbeth Salander. Larsson stated in interviews that he based many characters, including that of Lisbeth Salander, on characters from Astrid Lindgren novels. Blomkvist is frequently referred to by his colleagues in the news media as ""Kalle Blomkvist"", a reference to a boy detective who appears in several of Lindgren's novels, because his first notable investigation is uncovering the hideout of a gang of bank robbers. Lisbeth Salander sarcastically refers to him by"
"acclaimed ""Sommaren"" (1995). Stig Larsson (author) Stig Håkan Larsson is a Swedish writer of novels, dramas, poetry, political essays and short stories, film writer, director and actor. Larsson was born on 20 July 1955, in Skellefteå, Västerbottens län. He grew up in Umeå and currently lives in Stockholm. In the late 1970s, his namesake and friend, Stieg Larsson, ne Stig, the well-known author of the Millennium series, changed slightly the spelling of his first name to avoid confusion with Stig, by then a well-known writer. Larsson was a member of the ""Kris"" editorial staff. His first success was in 1979"
"""There Are Things I Want You to Know"" About Stieg Larsson and Me ""There Are Things I Want You to Know"" About Stieg Larsson and Me is a memoir written by Eva Gabrielsson, the life partner of Stieg Larsson, about life with the author and all of the complications surrounding his legacy. Larsson is best known for his posthumously published ""Millennium series"". Gabrielsson and Larsson met when they were 18 at an anti-Vietnam War meeting and they remained together for 32 years until his unexpected death in 2004. The memoir originated with a series of diary entries that Gabrielsson wrote"
"Stig Larsson (author) Stig Håkan Larsson is a Swedish writer of novels, dramas, poetry, political essays and short stories, film writer, director and actor. Larsson was born on 20 July 1955, in Skellefteå, Västerbottens län. He grew up in Umeå and currently lives in Stockholm. In the late 1970s, his namesake and friend, Stieg Larsson, ne Stig, the well-known author of the Millennium series, changed slightly the spelling of his first name to avoid confusion with Stig, by then a well-known writer. Larsson was a member of the ""Kris"" editorial staff. His first success was in 1979 with ""Autisterna"", since,"
"Mikael Blomkvist, a central character in the ""Millennium Trilogy"" by Stieg Larsson has a cabin in Sandhamn. Blomkvist uses the cabin as a place to relax and write. The crime drama series is shot on location on the island. Sandhamn Sandhamn (Swedish for ""Sand Harbour"") is a small settlement in the central-peripheral part of the Stockholm Archipelago in central-eastern Sweden, approximately 50 km (30 mi) east of Stockholm. Sandhamn is located on the island Sandön (""Sand Island""), which is, however, colloquially referred to as Sandhamn. One of the most important natural ports in the archipelago with easy access to the"
"his internationally successful ""Millennium"" series before he died; she has been seeking the legal authority to be in charge of what will happen to these 200 pages, as well as to exercise control over all Larsson's literary work, although so far Larsson's family has refused to give her such rights. If granted the literary rights of the series, however, Gabrielsson explains that she is not sure that it is fair for a ghostwriter to complete the work that Larsson had started. As a writer, in addition to working with Stieg Larsson on his literary projects, she is the coauthor of"
"series, and would be adapted each novel into two graphic novels. The graphic novels are adapted by Scottish crime novelist Denise Mina, with art by Leonardo Manco and Andrea Mutti. For the Franco-Belgian market, a separate adaptation has been published, written by Sylvain Runberg with artwork by José Homs and Manolo Carot. Starting in 2016, Runberg followed up the series with newer stories based on the characters, independent of David Lagercrantz' reboot. Millennium (novel series) Millennium is a series of best-selling and award-winning Swedish crime novels, created by Stieg Larsson. The two primary characters in the saga are Lisbeth Salander,"
"of what will happen to these 200 pages as well as with all of Larsson's literary work and success, though so far Larsson's family has refused to give her these rights. If granted the literary rights of Stieg Larsson's ""Millennium series"", however, Gabrielsson explains that she is not sure that it is fair for a ghostwriter to complete the work that Larsson had started. The memoir was written in Swedish and was first published by Actes Sud in 2011. It was translated into English by Linda Coverdale and published by Seven Stories Press also in 2011. ""There Are Things I"
"Larsson's brother and father, who hired Lagercrantz and have supported the latest book in the series. However, Larsson's long-term domestic partner, Eva Gabrielsson, has voiced criticism against this project and referred to Lagercrantz as a ""completely idiotic choice"" to continue the ""Millennium"" series. She possesses an unfinished fourth manuscript of the ""Millennium"" series, which is not included in the novel. In an interview, Lagercrantz said that he had one criticism against Stieg Larsson and Larsson's portrait of the protagonist Mikael Blomkvist: ""Women came to [Mikael Blomkvist], fell down and wanted to sleep with him, he didn't even have to charm"
"Swedish publishing company Norstedts announced that Lagercrantz had been contracted to write the fourth novel in the ""Millennium"" series of crime novels, originally by Stieg Larsson (1954–2004). The novel was published on August 27, 2015 and was launched in 27 countries at the same time. It received consistent positive reviews, reached international sales records and landed on the best selling lists all over the world. The novel was designated as one of the year’s best thrillers in 2014 by the magazine Esquire, and nominated to the 2016 Petrona Award in the category of Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year"
"G. W. Persson, Johan Theorin, Camilla Läckberg, Mari Jungstedt and Åke Edwardson. From 2004 and onwards, the deceased Stieg Larsson caused an international sensation with the ""Millennium Trilogy"", continuing as a series with new novels being written by David Lagercrantz. In the spy fiction genre, the most successful writer is Jan Guillou (1944–) and his best-selling books about the spy Carl Hamilton, many of which have also been filmed. Of Guillou's other works, the two most notable are his series on the Knight Templar Arn Magnusson and the semi-autobiographical novel with the metaphorical title Ondskan (""The Evil""). The Swedish ballad"
"find it. Although there is a ""war"" between the two roses all six of the youngsters are good friends and there is simply a playful rivalry between them. The Red Roses help the Whites when they are threatened by real dangers. Lindgren wrote three books about Bill Bergson: The character Mikael Blomkvist in Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy is dubbed ""Kalle Blomkvist"" by the press to mock him in his investigative reporting. Lisbeth Salander's name appears to be taken from Eva-Lotta Lisander, and is modeled in most other respect on Lindgren's other famous character, Pippi Longstocking. In ""The Girl with the"
"the international press, seen as an iconic moment in modern Swedish history. Stieg Larsson, the author of the ""Millennium"" series of novels, was ""Expo""'s co-founder and editor-in-chief from 1995 until his death in 2004. Larsson's political and journalistic background in far-left political activism including in ""Kommunistiska Arbetareförbundet"" (Communist Workers' League), and ""Internationalen"", led him to found the Expo Foundation, similar to the British Searchlight Foundation, with the aim of ""studying and mapping anti-democratic, right-wing extremist and racist tendencies in society"". Expo (magazine) Expo is a Swedish anti-racist magazine started in 1995 by Stieg Larsson. It is issued by the non-profit"
"including the detective novelist Henning Mankell and the writer of spy fiction Jan Guillou. The Swedish writer to have made the most lasting impression on world literature is the children's book writer Astrid Lindgren, and her books about Pippi Longstocking, Emil, and others. In 2008, the second best-selling fiction author in the world was Stieg Larsson, whose ""Millennium"" series of crime novels is being published posthumously to critical acclaim. Larsson drew heavily on the work of Lindgren by basing his central character, Lisbeth Salander, on Longstocking. Apart from traditional Protestant Christian holidays, Sweden also celebrates some unique holidays, some of"
"worldwide, a number that would grow to more than 46 million over the next five months, and reach 65 million in December 2011. In July 2010 the series made Larsson the first author to sell a million electronic copies of his work on the Amazon Kindle. Sales reached 75 million copies throughout fifty countries by December 2013, and 80 million by March 2015. The Swedish film production company Yellow Bird has produced film versions of the Millennium Trilogy, co-produced with The Danish film production company Nordisk Film and television company, which were released in Scandinavia in 2009. In 2010, the"
"this nickname throughout the series. ""Mikael Blomkvist is a graduate of the School of Journalism and had much of his professional life dedicated to revealing and report suspicious transactions, specifically in the field of banking and business,"" writes Larsson in the first volume of the trilogy. ""It will give the typical image of guardian of the moral, incorruptible, facing the business world. And as such quite frequently invite you to comment on various issues in television."" Blomkvist is an investigative journalist and co-owner of the monthly magazine ""Millennium"" based in Stockholm, Sweden. At the start of ""The Girl with the"
"and the US"" and largely featuring Lisbeth Salander's twin sister Camilla. Baksi is also against having a ghost writer complete it, believing that they ""would not respect Stieg Larsson's style."" The first novel won Sweden's Glass Key award in 2006, that same year the second book won the Best Swedish Crime Novel Award, and in 2008 the third novel also won the Glass Key award. In the 2012 revised edition of Japan's Tozai Mystery Best 100, the ""Millennium"" series was ranked the twelfth best mystery from the West. By May 2010, 27 million copies of the trilogy had been sold"
"writers include Brad Thor, ""The Lions of Lucerne"" (2002); Ted Bell, ""Hawke"" (2003); Alex Berenson, with John Wells appearing for the first time in ""The Faithful Spy"" (2006); Brett Battles, ""The Cleaner"" (2007); Ellis Goodman, ""Bear Any Burden"" (2008); Olen Steinhauer, ""The Tourist"" (2009); and Richard Ferguson, ""Oiorpata"" (2012). A number of other established writers began to write spy fiction for the first time, including Kyle Mills, ""Fade"" (2005) and James Patterson, ""Private"" (2010). Swede Stieg Larsson, who died in 2004, was the world's second best-selling author for 2008 due to his ""Millennium series"", featuring Lisbeth Salander, published posthumously between"
"of Larsson's work. Gabrielsson explains feeling ""dispossessed"" after Larsson's death because, as a common law partner in Sweden with no children, she had no inheritance rights. At one point, Erland and Joakim offered Gabrielsson roughly $3.3 million, but she does not want money and will continue to fight for the literary rights of Larsson's work. One source interviewed a friend who said that Gabrielsson ""will not be bought."" According to Gabrielsson, Larsson had written 200 pages of a fourth novel in his internationally successful ""Millennium series"" before he died; she has been seeking the legal authority to be in charge"
"Millennium (miniseries) Millennium is a Swedish six-part television miniseries based on the film adaptations of Stieg Larsson's series of the same name, that was broadcast on SVT1 from 20 March 2010 to 24 April 2010. The series was produced by Yellow Bird in cooperation with several production companies, including SVT, Nordisk Film, Film i Väst and ZDF Enterprises. The miniseries was released later in DVD and Blu-ray in the US under the name ""Dragon Tattoo Trilogy: Extended Edition"". ""Millennium"" was well received, winning a juried award for drama at Kristallen 2010, and an Emmy Award for ""Best TV Movie"" in"
"sciences respectively in the subject ranking by Academic Ranking of World Universities AWRU Shanghai (2018). The Sahlgrenska University Hospital in the Webometrics Hospital specific ranking 2017, was 1st in Sweden, 10th in Europe and 41st worldwide. Lisbeth Salander, a central character in the ""Millennium series"" by Stieg Larsson, is treated in Sahlgrenska Hospital after being shot. Sahlgrenska University Hospital The Sahlgrenska University Hospital (Swedish: ""Sahlgrenska Universitetssjukhuset"") is a system of hospitals associated with the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden. The hospital, named after philanthropist Niclas Sahlgren, is the largest in Northern Europe. It provides emergency and"
"""Everything of this nature described in the ""Millennium"" trilogy has happened at one time or another to a Swedish citizen, journalist, politician, public prosecutor, unionist or policeman,"" she writes. ""Nothing was made up."" There are also similarities between Larsson's Lisbeth Salander and Peter O'Donnell's Modesty Blaise. Both are women from disastrous childhoods who somehow survive to become adults with notable skills, including fighting, and who accomplish good by operating somewhat outside the law. One of Larsson's villains, Ronald Niedermann (a.k.a. ""blonde hulk""), has much in common with the invulnerable, sociopathic giant named Simon Delicata in the fourth Modesty Blaise book"
"the books after Larsson's death in 2004, and uses this same translation. In December 2013, the Swedish publisher Norstedts announced that a fourth ""Millennium"" book, to be published in August 2015, would be written by David Lagercrantz, a Swedish author known for being Zlatan Ibrahimović's biographer. Larsson's partner Eva Gabrielsson has voiced criticism against this project, which has not made use of the unpublished material which is still in her possession. The Swedish title of the book is ""Det som inte dödar oss"", literally translated """"That Which Does Not Kill Us"""". Like the previous novels, the English language translation was"
"interview he ever did about the series, Larsson stated that he based the character of Lisbeth Salander on what he imagined Pippi Longstocking might have been like as an adult. In the ""Millennium"" series, Salander has the name ""V. Kulla"" displayed on the door of her apartment on the top floor of Fiskargatan 9 in Stockholm. ""V. Kulla"" is an abbreviation of ""Villa Villekulla"", the name of Pippi Longstocking's house. Another source of inspiration was Larsson's niece, Therese. A rebellious teenager, she often wore black clothing and makeup, and told Larsson several times that she wanted to get a tattoo"
"longtime partner, wrote that ""the trilogy allowed Stieg to denounce everyone he loathed for their cowardice, their irresponsibility, and their opportunism: couch-potato activists, sunny-day warriors, fair-weather skippers who pick and choose their causes; false friends who used him to advance their own careers; unscrupulous company heads and shareholders who wrangle themselves huge bonuses... Seen in this light, Stieg couldn't have had any better therapy for what ailed his soul than writing his novels."" People who knew Larsson, such as Baksi and Anders Hellberg, a colleague of Larsson's in the 1970s and 1980s, were surprised that he wrote the novels. Hellberg"
"published by Quercus. The book was released with the English language title ""The Girl in the Spider's Web"" in the UK on 27 August and in the US on 1 September 2015. An early review by ""Upsala Nya Tidning"" characterised ""The Girl in the Spider's Web"" as """"standard crime"""" portraying more brooding, human versions of Blomkvist and Salander, while downplaying the earlier """"exaggerated and cartoonish features of the series"""". The fifth book in the ""Millennium"" series was released in September, 2017, once again written by David Lagercrantz. The Swedish title is ""Mannen som sökte sin skugga"" (literal English translation: ""The"
"habit of inserting the names of some of his favourites within the text, sometimes by making his characters read the works of Larsson's favorite authors. Topping the list were Sara Paretsky, Agatha Christie, Val McDermid, Dorothy Sayers, Elizabeth George, and Enid Blyton. One of the strongest influences originates from his own country: ""Pippi Longstocking"", by Sweden's much-loved children's author Astrid Lindgren. Larsson explained that one of his main recurring characters in the ""Millennium"" series, Lisbeth Salander, is actually fashioned on a grown-up Pippi Longstocking as he chose to sketch her. There are additional connections to Lindgren's literary work in the"
"""what made Sjöwall and Wahlöö's novels stand out from previous crime fiction – and what made it so influential in the following decades – was, above all, the conscious inclusion of a critical perspective on Swedish society."" Bergman also claims that ""it was not until Stieg Larsson's ""Millennium"" trilogy (2005–07) that Swedish crime fiction truly became a worldwide phenomenon."" However, British author Barry Forshaw, writing in ""Nordic Noir"", suggests that Peter Høeg's atmospheric novel ""Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow"" as being ""massively influential"" in being the true progenitor of the ""Scandinavian New Wave"" and, by setting its counter-intuitive heroine in"
"character's names in some languages other than English. The Swedish town of Vimmerby, located near Astrid Lindgren's place of birth, has a theme park, based on her books. Scenes from the book are recreated at one-third scale, and actors roam the park dressed as Pippi and other characters. The most popular children's festival in Slovenia, annually held in Velenje since 1990, is named Pika's Festival after Pippi Longstocking. Swedish author Stieg Larsson, in writing his ""Millennium"" series, has stated that one of the main characters in the three novels, Lisbeth Salander, was fashioned on a grown-up Pippi Longstocking. In the"
"the author had little contact with his father and brother, and requests the rights to control his work so it may be presented in the way he would have wanted. Larsson's story was featured on the 10 October 2010 segment of ""CBS News Sunday Morning"". Larson had originally planned a series of ten books and had completed two and most of a third when he began looking for publishers. At the time of his death in 2004 only three had been completed, and although accepted for publication, none had yet been printed. These were published posthumously as the ""Millennium"" series."
"time several years, to the start of her career and the meeting with her future husband Thomas. By the fifth installment, ""Den röda vargen"", the reader is back in the present. Books 6, 7 and 8—""Nobels testamente"", ""Livstid"" and ""En plats i solen""—comprise a trilogy, with recurring characters and themes, and plots linked to each other. By order written, the novels include: The chronological order is as follows: Helena Bergström acted as Bengtzon in two films made in the early 2000s; the films were directed by her husband Colin Nutley. The Swedish actress Malin Crépin is best known for her"