"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"
"manuscript for publication. Norstedts commissioned Steve Murray under the pen-name of Reg Keeland to undertake the English translation. Alfred A. Knopf bought the rights to the book, along with the preceding two volumes in the series, after Larsson's death in 2004. ""The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest"" was published with a first print-run of 800,000 copies. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (original title in , literally, ""the air castle that was blown up"") is the third novel in the best-selling ""Millennium"" series by Swedish writer Stieg Larsson. It was published"
"and 15 million copies altogether, in the United States. Wiley published a collection of essays, edited by Eric Bronson, titled ""The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Philosophy"" (2011). The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (original title in ; in English: Men Who Hate Women) is a psychological thriller novel by Swedish author and journalist Stieg Larsson (1954–2004), which was published posthumously in 2005 to become an international bestseller. It is the first book of the ""Millennium"" series. Larsson spoke of an incident which he said occurred when he was 15: he stood by"
"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (original title in ; in English: Men Who Hate Women) is a psychological thriller novel by Swedish author and journalist Stieg Larsson (1954–2004), which was published posthumously in 2005 to become an international bestseller. It is the first book of the ""Millennium"" series. Larsson spoke of an incident which he said occurred when he was 15: he stood by as three men gang raped an acquaintance of his named Lisbeth. Days later, racked with guilt for having done nothing to help her, he begged her forgiveness—which she refused"
"released to great acclaim in Sweden and later, on its publication in many other European countries. In the original language, it won Sweden's Glass Key Award in 2006 for best crime novel of the year. It also won the 2008 Boeke Prize, and in 2009 the Galaxy British Book Awards for Books Direct Crime Thriller of the Year, and the prestigious Anthony Award for Best First Novel. Larsson was awarded the ITV3 Crime Thriller Award for International Author of the Year in 2008. ""The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"" received mixed reviews from American critics. It debuted at number four"
"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"
"of all—author Larsson's penchant for always telling us exactly what we should be feeling."" On the other hand, Dr. Abdallah Daar, writing for ""Nature"", said, ""The events surrounding the great-niece's disappearance are meticulously and ingeniously pieced together, with plenty of scientific insight."" The ""Pittsburgh Post-Gazette"" wrote, ""It's a big, intricately plotted, darkly humorous work, rich with ironies, quirky but believable characters and a literary playfulness that only a master of the genre and its history could bring off."" As of 3 June 2011, ""The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"" had sold over 3.4 million copies in hardcover or ebook formats,"
"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009 film) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (, literally ""Men who hate women"") is a 2009 Swedish drama thriller film based on the novel of the same name by Swedish author/journalist Stieg Larsson. It is the first book in the trilogy known as the ""Millennium"" series, published in Sweden in 2005. By August 2009, it had been sold to 25 countries outside Scandinavia and had been seen by more than 6 million people in the countries where it was already released. Directed by Niels Arden Oplev, the film stars Michael Nyqvist and Noomi"
"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. In the book """"There Are Things I Want You to Know"" About Stieg Larsson and Me"", Eva Gabrielsson describes this as Larsson's motivation for setting part of his first novel ""The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"" in northern Sweden, which Gabrielsson calls ""godforsaken places at the back of beyond."" Larsson was not as fond of the urban environment in the"
"the third section, writes Koskinen, is a skeleton (of the book's power). Besides, she notes, ""one sees Noomi Rapace far too little."" The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (film) The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest ( = English: ""The castle in the sky that blew up"") is a 2009 Swedish drama thriller film directed by Daniel Alfredson. It is based on the bestselling novel of the same name by the late Swedish author and journalist Stieg Larsson, the third entry in his ""Millennium"" series. The film was also the last film for veteran actor Per Oscarsson, who died"
"Stieg Larsson Karl Stig-Erland ""Stieg"" Larsson (; ; 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 and adapted as motion pictures. Larsson lived much of his life in Stockholm and worked there with socialist politics and journalism, including as an independent researcher of right-wing extremism. He was the second best-selling author in the world for 2008, behind Khaled Hosseini. The third novel in the ""Millennium"" trilogy, ""The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest"", became the most sold book in"
"Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest"" in 2007. Larsson's novels were originally printed in Swedish by Norstedts förlag, with English editions by Quercus in the United Kingdom and Alfred A. Knopf in the United States. The books have since been translated by many publishers in over fifty countries. By March 2015, 80 million copies of the first three books had been sold worldwide. In 2013, publisher Norstedts förlag commissioned Swedish author and crime journalist David Lagercrantz to continue the ""Millennium"" series featuring Larsson's characters. Lagercrantz's first novel in the series, ""The Girl in the Spider's Web"", was published in 2015. Another"
"Dragon Tattoo"", three of Lindgren's books are mentioned: ""The Children of Noisy Village"", ""Bill Bergson and the White Rose Rescue"" (although in the book the translation was ""Kalle Blomkvist and Rasmus"" from the original ""Kalle Blomkvist och Rasmus""), and ""Pippi Longstocking"". The relation between Astrid Lindgren and, at least, the first part of the Trilogy, can be taken farther when the fact that, in it, a cat is named 'Tjorven', is considered. The name comes from the Swedish television series ""Vi på Saltkråkan"" based on a script by Astrid Lindgren and not originally a book. Apart from this, the TV"
"9, 2018. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 film) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a 2011 psychological crime thriller film based on the 2005 novel of the same name by Stieg Larsson. This film adaptation was directed by David Fincher and written by Steven Zaillian. Starring Daniel Craig as journalist Mikael Blomkvist and Rooney Mara as Lisbeth Salander, it tells the story of Blomkvist's investigation to find out what happened to a woman from a wealthy family who disappeared 40 years prior. He recruits the help of Salander, a computer hacker. Sony Pictures Entertainment began development on"
"founded in 2004). The first titles were published in January 2008, and among these was the best-selling psychological thriller ""The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"" by Swedish author Stieg Larsson. Other international authors published by MacLehose Press include Bernardo Atxaga, Dulce Maria Cardoso, Philippe Claudel, Otto de Kat, Maylis de Kerangal, Virginie Despentes, Joël Dicker, Sophie Divry, Per Olov Enquist, Roy Jacobsen, Jaan Kross, Andrey Kurkov, David Lagercrantz, Pierre Lemaitre, Élmer Mendoza, Patrick Modiano, Marie NDiaye, Daniel Pennac, Lydie Salvayre, Żanna Słoniowska, and Valerio Varesi. With ""a reputation as a master at finding foreign fiction by writers such as Henning"
"Prince"" (The Little Prince), are meant to be informative, and can name the protagonist, and indicate the theme of the book. An example of a symbolic book title is Stieg Larsson's ""The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"", whose original Swedish title is ""Män som hatar kvinnor"" (Men Who Hate Women). Such symbolic book titles usually indicate the theme, issues, or atmosphere of the work. When translators are working with long book titles, the translated titles are often shorter and indicate the theme of the book. The translation of plays poses many problems such as the added element of actors, speech"
"compared to Swedish author Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy book The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. It won the CWA International Dagger award 2013 amidst much international acclaim. Alex Prevost – kidnapped, savagely beaten, suspended from the ceiling of an abandoned warehouse in a wooden cage – is running out of time. Her abductor appears to want only to watch her die. Apart from a shaky eyewitness report, Police Commandant Camille Verhœven has nothing to go on: no suspects, no leads. To find the young woman, the detective - a man with a tragic past and extraordinary abilities as an investigator"
"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 film) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a 2011 psychological crime thriller film based on the 2005 novel of the same name by Stieg Larsson. This film adaptation was directed by David Fincher and written by Steven Zaillian. Starring Daniel Craig as journalist Mikael Blomkvist and Rooney Mara as Lisbeth Salander, it tells the story of Blomkvist's investigation to find out what happened to a woman from a wealthy family who disappeared 40 years prior. He recruits the help of Salander, a computer hacker. Sony Pictures Entertainment began development on the film"
"""The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"". Siwe, however, won the Guldbagge Award for ""Best Director"", and Anki Lidén (Jenna's grandmother) was awarded with ""Best Actress in a Supporting Role"". The film also won awards at international festivals, including the Canadian ""Students Choice Award"" at Sprockets Toronto International Film Festival for Children and the Norwegian ""Don Quijote Award"" at Kristiansand International Children's Film Festival. ""Glowing Stars"" debuted in second place on the Swedish box office chart. Glowing Stars Glowing Stars () is a Swedish film which was released to cinemas in Sweden on 30 January 2009, based on the award-winning novel"
"Stig Larsson has established himself as one of Sweden's best-known and influential authors. ""His instinct for psychological and emotional violence has been compared to that of August Strindberg and Ingmar Bergman."" He has published over 20 books including novels, short stories, and poetry collections. He has also written and directed internationally successful stage plays such as ""Vd"" and ""Systrar, bröder"". In 1989, he wrote and directed his feature film debut ""Ängel"", followed by ""The Rabbit Man"" in 1990. He has directed TV movies such as ""Under isen"" (1991) and ""Nigger"" (1991), and written screenplays for films such as Kristian Petris's"
"Norway after all."" Andy Hoban of ""Sunday Express"" noted ""Nesbo’s principal characters are both credible and well-drawn and it is fantastic to see a younger Harry, a more loquacious Harry. The Bat explains some of what burdens and drives him in the later books. So for anyone new to Nesbo, you are in for a treat if you follow Harry’s career beginning with this book. For me, the biggest insult to Nesbo was to see him advertised as “the next Stieg Larsson” when in fact The Bat was written eight years before The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Still, now"
"most international (and Swedish) reviewers overlook is that the financial and moral corruptibility at the heart of ""The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"" is so profound as to indict most attributes associated with contemporary Sweden as democratic and gender-equal. The novel is in fact far from what American critic Maureen Corrigan calls an ""unflinching ... commonsense feminist social commentary"". (Corrigan's article was ""Super-Smart Noir With a Feminist Jolt,"" National Public Radio, 23 September 2008.) Larsson further enters the debate as to how responsible criminals are for their crimes, and how much is blamed on upbringing or society. For instance, Salander"
"Copenhagen and Greenland, inaugurates the current Scandinavian crime wave. One critic opines, ""Nordic crime fiction carries a more respectable cachet... than similar genre fiction produced in Britain or the US"". Language, heroes and settings are three commonalities in the genre, which features plain, direct writing style without metaphor. The novels are often of the police procedural subgenre, focusing on the monotonous, day-to-day work of police, though not always involving the simultaneous investigation of several crimes. Examples include ""The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"" and its sequels by Stieg Larsson, Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander detective series, and Maj Sjöwall and Per"
"art, and film. Specifically, Uppsala University has appeared notably in ""Män som hatar kvinnor"" or ""The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"" by Stieg Larsson. The Norwegian pop singer Kirsti Sparboe dedicated one of her biggest successes to Uppsala University, publishing in 1969 the song ""Ein Student aus Uppsala"". The song, originally written in German, lasted 14 weeks in the German charts. Uppsala University appears as a research centre in the strategy game """". Uppsala University appears in the novel ""S."" by Doug Dorst and J. J. Abrams. The fictional author V. M. Straka of ""Ship of Theseus"" sends Mr. Grahn"
"on the Knut Hamsun novel by the same name, a role for which he won the 1966 Bodil, the Guldbagge Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role and the 1966 Cannes Film Festival best actor awards. His most recent film role was as Holger Palmgren, the character Lisbeth Salander's publicly appointed guardian, in the 2009 movies ""The Girl Who Played with Fire"" and ""The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest"", based on Stieg Larsson's famous novels. A fire started in the house of Per Oscarsson and his wife Kia Östling on the night of 30–31 December 2010. On ,"
"of a New York skyscraper, until Robert's beloved Giselle climbs, sword in hand, to save him. A similar role reversal is evident in Stieg Larsson's ""The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"", in whose climatic scene the male protagonist is captured by a mass murderer, locked in an underground torture room, chained, stripped naked, and humiliated when his female partner enters to save him and destroy the villain. Still another example is ""Foxglove Summer"", part of Ben Aaronovitch's ""Rivers of London"" series - where the protagonist Peter Grant is bound and taken captive by the Queen of the Faeries, and it"
"first film was directed by Niels Arden Oplev and the next two by Daniel Alfredson, while the screenplays of the first two were adapted by Nikolaj Arcel and Rasmus Heisterberg, and the last one by Ulf Rydberg and Jonas Frykberg. All three films feature Michael Nyqvist as Mikael Blomkvist and Noomi Rapace as Lisbeth Salander. Yellow Bird and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer partnered with Columbia Pictures to produce an English-language adaptation of the first novel. ""The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"" was written by Steven Zaillian, directed by David Fincher and produced by Scott Rudin, with Daniel Craig as Mikael Blomkvist and Rooney"
"known for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009 film) and its sequels. Karjel grew up in the small city of Örebro, the son of a Swedish mother, Solveig, and an Estonian father, Raivo. His father escaped Estonia as a child at the end of World War II. ""Perhaps my mixed Swedish-Estonian background created a permanent inner tension,"" Karjel wrote in an author profile. ""The almost mythic stories of heroism I heard growing up clashed with the dullness of the Swedish suburb where I lived."" In 1987, Karjel traveled to the Amazon jungle, where he lived with Swedish missionaries in"
"wasps in his novel ""The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth"" (1904): ""Wasp"" (1957) is a science fiction book by the English writer Eric Frank Russell; it is generally considered Russell's best novel. In Stieg Larsson's book ""The Girl Who Played with Fire"" (2006) and its film adaptation, Lisbeth Salander has adopted her kickboxing ringname, ""The Wasp"", as her hacker handle and has a wasp tattoo on her neck, indicating her high status among hackers, unlike her real world situation, and that like a small but painfully stinging wasp, she could be dangerous. Parasitoidal wasps played"
"inspired Stieg Larsson to write the novel ""The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"", an international success. Murder of Catrine da Costa Remains of Swedish prostitute Catrine da Costa (19 June 1956 – 1984) were found in Solna, north of Stockholm, in the late summer of 1984. Da Costa had been dismembered and parts of her body, in plastic bags, were found one kilometer apart on 18 July and 8 August. The case is known as Styckmordsrättegången (the dismemberment murder trial). How da Costa died has not been established, since vital organs and her head have not been found. Da Costa,"
"a good review. Salander is described as ""one of the most original characters in a thriller to come along in a while"". The combination of her resourcefulness, intelligence and apparent fragility underlies her ability to win the battle to have her re-institutionalised. The compelling character of Salander and her past, completely explained in the volume of the trilogy, is a counterpoint to Blomkvist's more mundane character, writes the reviewer. The novel itself is compared to John LeCarre's cold-war thrillers. Writing for ""The Guardian"", Kate Mosse declares that ""The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest"" is a ""grown-up work for grown-up"
"finalist for the 2011 National Jewish Book Award. He has published two books of humor, ""Nonsensibility Sense and Nonsensibility: Lampoons of Learning and Literature"", a collection of short sketches parodying the contemporary life of the mind written with his Amherst colleague, Alexander George; and ""The Girl with the Sturgeon Tattoo"", a parody of Stieg Larsson's bestselling trilogy that he wrote under the pseudonym Lars Arffssen. Douglas is a regular reviewer of books on legal topics for the Times Literary Supplement. Douglas is the recipient of major fellowships from the National Endowment of the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies,"
"Stieg Larsson. Foreign authors include Nobel Prize laurates Mario Vargas Llosa, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, Orhan Pamuk, Imre Kertész and Bob Dylan. Other authors include Graham Greene, EL James, Michael Connelly, Suzanne Brøgger, J.R.R. Tolkien, Isabel Allende and J.K. Rowling. Norstedts förlag Norstedts Förlag is a book publishing company in Sweden. Norstedt's is Sweden's oldest publishing house and one of the largest in the country. It was founded in 1823 by Per Adolf Norstedt, under the name P. A. Norstedt & Söner (""P. A. Norstedt & Sons""). The publishing company began by Per Adolf Norstedt purchasing J. P. Lindh's widow's"