"behind and crossed the border. The Girl Who Played with Fire The Girl Who Played with Fire () is the second novel in the best-selling ""Millennium"" series by Swedish writer Stieg Larsson. It was published posthumously in Swedish in 2006 and in English in January 2009. The book features many of the characters who appeared in ""The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"" (2005), among them the title character, Lisbeth Salander, a brilliant computer hacker and social misfit, and Mikael Blomkvist, an investigative journalist and publisher of ""Millennium "" magazine. Widely seen as a critical success, ""The Girl Who Played with"
"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,"
"the third book in the series Salander is declared sane and competent: Writers have described Salander as a ""fiercely unconventional and darkly kooky antiheroine"", a ""superhero"", a ""misfit"", and ""an androgynous, asocial, bisexually active... loner who makes a living as a computer hacker..."" Jennie Punter in ""Queen's Quarterly"" wrote that ""the diminutive, flat-chested, chain-smoking, tattoo-adorned, anti-social, bisexual, genius computer hacker Lisbeth Salander"" has become ""one of the most compelling characters in recent popular fiction"". In ""The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo"" (2005), Lisbeth Salander is introduced as a gifted, but deeply troubled, researcher and computer hacker working for Milton Security."
"the kind of issues that Larsson himself railed against in society"". Most of the reviewers concentrated mainly on the character of Lisbeth Salander, with Mark Lawson at the ""Guardian"" saying that ""the huge pleasure of these books is Salander, a fascinating creation with a complete and complex psychology."" Boyd Tonkin in ""The Independent"" said: ""the spiky and sassy Lisbeth Salander – punkish wild child, traumatised survivor of the 'care' system, sexual adventurer and computer hacker of genius"" was ""the most original heroine to emerge in crime fiction for many years"". Michiko Kakutani at ""The New York Times"" wrote that ""Salander"
"in 2016. The movie rights are held by Sony Pictures. ""The Girl in the Spider's Web"" is the first of the novels in the ""Millennium"" series to be directly filmed in English. Filmings of the previous three novels were initially produced in Swedish, directed by Niels Arden Oplev and Daniel Alfredsson. Uruguayan filmmaker Fede Álvarez will be directing the fourth movie in the series and has co-written the screenplay with Steven Knight and Jay Basu. ""The Girl in the Spider's Web"" will premiere in 2018 with Claire Foy starring as the iconic main character Lisbeth Salander. In September 2017, Lagercrantz's"
"In the 2011 American film adaptation of the first book, Salander is played by Rooney Mara, who received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress on January 24, 2012 for her performance. In the 2018 movie ""The Girl in the Spider's Web"", Salander is portrayed by Claire Foy. David Denby of ""The New Yorker"" stated that the character of Lisbeth Salander clearly accounts for a large part of the novels' success. Deirdre Donahue of ""USA Today"" referred to Salander as ""one of the most startling, engaging and sometimes perplexing heroines in recent memory."" ""The New York Times""s David"
"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, a woman in her twenties with a photographic memory and poor social skills, and Mikael Blomkvist, an investigative journalist and publisher of a magazine called ""Millennium"". Larsson planned the series as having ten installments, but due to his sudden death in 2004, only three were completed and published. All three were published posthumously: ""The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"" in 2005, ""The Girl Who Played with Fire"" in 2006, and ""The Girl"
"Larsson novels; for example, the other main character, Mikael Blomkvist, is frequently referred to mockingly by his detractors as ""Kalle Blomkvist"", the name of a fictional teenage detective created by Lindgren. The name Salander was actually inspired by the strong female character in the Kalle Blomkvist trilogy by Astrid Lindgren, Kalle's girlfriend Eva-Lotte Lisander. Larsson has said when he was 15 years old, he witnessed three of his friends gang-raping a young girl, which led to his lifelong abhorrence of violence and abuse against women. His longtime partner, Eva Gabrielsson, writes that this incident ""marked him for life"" in a"
"delays, which irritate"". The review in ""USA Today"" calls Salander a fascinating character, and warns potential readers the reviewer thought she was not present for too much of the novel. ""Paste"" magazine's review also noted the relative absence of Salander, asserting that Lagercrantz seemed to prefer focusing on new characters that he invented. The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye (original title in , literally ""The Man Who Chased His Shadow"") is the fifth novel in the ""Millennium"" series, focusing on the characters Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist. Written"
"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"
"him for years afterward, and in part moved him to create a character with her name who was also a rape survivor. The veracity of this story has since been questioned, after a colleague from ""Expo"" magazine reported to ""Rolling Stone"" that Larsson had told him he had heard the story secondhand and retold it as his own. Lisbeth Salander has red hair which she dyes black. Upon her first appearance in the series, she is described as a pale, skinny young woman who has hair as short as a fuse, and a pierced nose and eyebrows. She has a"
"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"
"author Selma Lagerlöf, with whom she eventually came to develop a lesbian relationship, a relationship which is demonstrated by a correspondence of love letters during the course of 40 years. She is also thought to have affected the work of Selma Lagerlöf in her capacity of literary adviser. The relationship between Selma Lagerlöf, Valborg Olander and Olander's rival, the writer Sophie Elkan, was portryayed in a TV series written by Åsa Lantz in 2008, with Helena Bergström as Selma Lagerlöf, Ingela Olsson as Valborg Olander and Alexandra Rapaport as Sophie Elkan. Valborg Olander Valborg Olander (Uddeholm Manor, Värmland 14 May"
"Sandra Gulland Sandra Gulland (born November 3, 1944) is an American-born Canadian novelist. She is the author of ""The Shadow Queen"" and ""Mistress of the Sun"", novels set in the court of Louis XIV, The Sun King, and a trilogy of novels based on the life of Josephine Bonaparte: ""The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B.""; ""Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe""; ""The Last Great Dance on Earth"". To date, Gulland's novels have been published in fifteen countries and translated into thirteen languages. ""The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B."" was a bestseller in the UK."
"being shown to a publisher and were published posthumously after his fatal heart attack in 2004. Additionally, all three novels were adapted as films. The book begins as Lisbeth Salander is flown to Sahlgrenska Hospital. It picks up where ""The Girl Who Played with Fire"" left off. After surgery, Salander is moved to an intensive care ward under guard, accessible only to police, doctors, nurses, and her lawyer, Annika Giannini (who is also Mikael Blomkvist's sister). Zalachenko, whom Salander injured with an axe, is two rooms away. Niedermann, thanks to botched responses from the local law enforcement, is on the"
"information she hacked from the NSA, which he uses to write an exposé article that results in the arrests of Camilla's accomplices and re-establishes ""Millennium"" as the most influential news magazine in Sweden. Salander shows up at Blomkvist's apartment, and they spend the night together. In 2009, the Swedish film and television studio Yellow Bird produced a trilogy of films based upon the first three novels. In these films, Salander is played as an adult by Noomi Rapace and as a child by Tehilla Blad. Rapace received a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role nomination in 2011."
"""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"
"is a Roman Catholic. The ""Outlander"" series focuses on 20th-century nurse Claire Randall, who time travels to 18th-century Scotland and finds adventure and romance with the dashing James Fraser. Set in Scotland, France, the West Indies, England and North America, the novels merge multiple genres, featuring elements of historical fiction, romance, mystery, adventure and science fiction/fantasy. The ""Lord John"" series is a sequence of novels and shorter works that center on Lord John Grey, a recurring secondary character in Gabaldon's ""Outlander"" series. The spin-off series currently consists of five novellas and three novels, which all take place between 1756 and"
"Rapace. In December 2002, Mikael Blomkvist, publisher of ""Millennium"" magazine, loses a libel case involving allegations that he published about billionaire financier Hans-Erik Wennerström. He is sentenced to three months in prison. Lisbeth Salander, a surveillance agent and hacker, is hired by Henrik Vanger, the patriarch of the wealthy Vanger family, to investigate Blomkvist. Vanger then hires Blomkvist to investigate the disappearance of his niece, Harriet, who vanished on Children's Day in 1966. Vanger believes that Harriet was murdered by a family member. Henrik explains that his brothers- Gottfried, Richard, and Harald- were all supporters of the Nazi regime. Richard"
"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 ,"
"has a strong will and assumes that everyone else does, too. She is portrayed as having suffered every kind of abuse in her young life, including an unnecessary ordered commitment to a psychiatric clinic and subsequent instances of sexual assault suffered at the hands of her court-appointed guardian. Maria de Lurdes Sampaio, in the journal ""Cross-Cultural Communication"", asserts that, ""Blomkvist, a modern Theseus, leads us to the labyrinth of the globalized world, while the series' protagonist, Lisbeth Salander, modeled on the Amazon, is an example of the empowerment of women in crime fiction by playing the role of the 'tough"
"Her boss, Dragan Armansky, commissions her to research disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist at the behest of a wealthy businessman, Henrik Vanger. When Blomkvist finds out that Salander hacked his computer, he hires her to assist him in investigating the disappearance of Vanger's grandniece, Harriet, 40 years earlier. Salander uses her research skills to uncover a series of murders, dating back decades and tied to Harriet's disappearance. During the investigation, Salander and Blomkvist become lovers. The novel reveals Salander was declared legally incompetent as a child and is under the care of legal guardian Holgar Palmgren, one of the few people"
"scenes in the book. One of the main characters, Kaja Solness, may be a reference to ""The Master Builder"", one of Henrik Ibsen's most well known plays. The play centres on a man named Halvard Solness, whose son is engaged to a woman named Kaja. Nesbø is likely to be familiar with the play, which is a classic of Norwegian culture (and of world theatre in general). The writer has not, however, made any statement on the possible connection between Ibsen's character and his own. The Leopold's Apple device that is a central feature of the novel is an invention"
"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"
"Salander disappeared from Sweden and traveled throughout Europe. The novel opens with her on the shores of the Caribbean in St George's, the capital of Grenada. Salander has become interested in Fermat's Last Theorem and mathematics, an interest that resounds with the opening page of each Part in this novel. From within her room in her hotel she observes on several occasions that her neighbor, Dr Forbes, an American tourist from Texas, physically abuses his wife, in the next room to Salander's. Salander also befriends George Bland, a 16-year-old orphaned student living in a small shack and begins tutoring him"
"series. Linda is the daughter of Kurt Wallander, who follows in his footsteps as a police officer. Mankell began an intended trilogy of novels with her as the protagonist. However, following the suicide of Johanna Sällström, the actress playing the character at the time in the Swedish TV series, Mankell was so distraught that he decided to abandon the series after only the first novel. Henning Mankell Henning Georg Mankell (; 3February 19485October 2015) was a Swedish crime writer, children's author, and dramatist, best known for a series of mystery novels starring his most noted creation, Inspector Kurt Wallander. He"
"Álvarez was announced by Sony as director, as well as co-screenwriter with Steven Knight and Jay Basu. ""The Girl in the Spider's Web"" was notably the first adaptation of an installment in the book series to be produced into an English-language film upon its initial release. By March 2017, Álvarez announced that the film would have an entirely new cast, as he wanted the entire film to be his interpretation of the story. In September of the same year, Claire Foy was cast as Lisbeth Salander, replacing Mara, with the film scheduled to be released in the U.S. on November"
"one piece. Other animated films for children have been produced on the tale, and, in 1975, a science fiction fantasy feature film, ""The Tin Soldier"". In Stieg Larsson's 2006 thriller ""The Girl Who Played with Fire"", the fiercely independent protagonist Lisbeth Salander compares the journalist Mikael Blomkvist, who had stayed loyal to her despite her repeated blatant rejection of him, with Andersen's steadfast tin soldier (implicitly comparing herself with Andersen's ballerina). Mike Mignola's graphic novel ""Baltimore, or The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire"" fuses the poignancy of ""The Steadfast Tin Soldier"" with supernatural Dracula myths, set in a post-World"
"gender the conflicts mostly took place among the girls. Lisbeth Werner Lisbeth Werner was the pseudonym that the Danish writers Knud Meister and Carlo Andersen used in order to publish a series of popular teenage books about Puk (Puck), a girl that attended a boarding school. In Danish 46 books were published, only 18 were translated into Swedish. 21 of the books were translated into French and 29 were translated into Spanish and Catalan by Editorial Toray (). The intrigues in the stories are partly triggered by new pupils that have trouble in accommodating themselves and partly by mysteries. Despite"
"Before the Frost Before the Frost (""Innan Frosten"") is a novel by Swedish crime-writer Henning Mankell. The protagonist is Linda Wallander, daughter of Inspector Wallander. The book was to be the first in a three-book series with Linda as the main character. However Mankell abandoned the series after just one novel when the actress playing Linda in the Swedish films, Johanna Sällström, committed suicide in 2007. Kurt Wallander and Stefan Lindman (the protagonist from ""The Return of the Dancing Master"") also feature in the novel. A feature film adaptation directed by Kjell-Åke Andersson was made in 2004 and released in"
"claims to have that would help him in his case against Wennerström. During this time, Blomkvist meets and begins to work with Salander, whom Vanger had hired prior to investigate Blomkvist while considering him for the job. The two form an important relationship, in which each of their skill-sets prove invaluable in solving the Vanger case; they also become lovers. At the end of the first novel, Salander saves Blomkvist from Vanger's great-nephew (and Harriet's brother) Martin, a serial killer who has been murdering women throughout Sweden for decades. Using her phone tapping contacts in London, she and Blomkvist discover"
"to do what he can to find her before the authorities do. Lisbeth Salander purchases an apartment in Stockholm. On returning to Sweden after nearly a year living abroad, Salander reconnects with her best friend and former partner Miriam Wu and offers her free use of her old apartment in return for forwarding her mail. Later, Salander confronts Nils Bjurman after hacking into his mail and discovering that he has an appointment booked with a tattoo removal specialist. Threatening him with his own gun, she warns him not to remove the tattoo that she etched on his abdomen. ""Millennium"" magazine"
"Sophie Bolander ""Sophie"" Christina Mathilda Bolander (1807 in Gothenburg – 1869 in Gothenburg), was a Swedish author. She is most famed for her participation in the contemporary debate on gender issues. Sophie Bolander was the daughter of the factory owner Gustav Erik Bolander and Johanna Kristina Carlström. She never married. Her anti-aristocratic novel »Trolldomstecknet» has been regarded as one of the first tendency novels in Sweden. During the 1850s, many of her novels was published as serials in papers such as ""Göteborgs Handels- och Sjöfartstidning"", ""Post- och Inrikes Tidningar"" and ""Aftonbladet"". Her novels were romance stories, often in historical setting."