"to the United States with August, Needham attempts to access Firefall, only to discover Lisbeth has already destroyed it, citing it is what Balder would have wanted, while Lisbeth later burns down her childhood home to destroy all traces of her father. In November 2015, ""The Hollywood Reporter"" announced that Sony Pictures Entertainment was planning to develop a new film series of the ""Millennium"" series, starting from the book ""The Girl in the Spider's Web"" by David Lagercrantz. Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig, who portrayed Salander and Blomkvist, respectively, in ""The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"", would not be back"
"Jonathan Gibbs called the character ""a vision of female empowerment – a kind of goth-geek Pippi Longstocking,"" but also an ""agglomeration of clichés."" Richard Schickel of ""Los Angeles Times"" suggested that Salander represents something new in the thriller genre; ""She's a tiny bundle of post-modernist tropes, beginning with her computer skills."" Since 2015, there is a street named after Salander in Larsson's home town in north Sweden, Skellefteå. It is called ""Lisbeth Salanders gata"" and is surrounded by other names from local literature. Lisbeth Salander Lisbeth Salander is a fictional character created by Swedish author and journalist Stieg Larsson. She"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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,"
"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"
"installment, ""The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye"", followed in 2017. After his death, many of Larsson's friends said the character of Lisbeth Salander was created out of an incident in which Larsson, then a teenager, witnessed three of his friends gang-raping an acquaintance of his named Lisbeth, and did nothing to stop it. Days later, wracked with guilt, he begged her forgiveness — which she refused. The incident, he said, haunted 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"
"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"
"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"
"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 French and Italian, because it sounded ""cool."" They have a son, Lev. Born 2003. In September 2010, they filed for divorce, which took effect the next year. Noomi Rapace Noomi Rapace (; ; born 28 December 1979) is a Swedish actress. She achieved fame with her portrayal of Lisbeth Salander in the Swedish film adaptations of the ""Millennium"" series: ""The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"", ""The Girl Who Played with Fire"", and ""The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest"". In 2011, she was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Actress for her performance in ""The Girl with the"
"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"
"Week's award. The premiere in Sweden was December 10, 2010. Tehilla Blad Tehilla Blad (born 5 September 1995 in Uppsala) is a Swedish actress, singer, swimmer and ballet dancer best known for playing the young Lisbeth Salander in the Swedish Millennium films. Tehilla is the sixth child in a family with eight children who all are focusing on music, dance, swimming and acting. In year 2008 the sibling group, who calls themselves BBx8 (B-B times eight), came to the semifinals in ""Sweden's Got Talent"" (""Talang 2008""). Tehilla graduated from the Royal Swedish Ballet in Stockholm in June 2015. In 2005,"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"Tehilla Blad Tehilla Blad (born 5 September 1995 in Uppsala) is a Swedish actress, singer, swimmer and ballet dancer best known for playing the young Lisbeth Salander in the Swedish Millennium films. Tehilla is the sixth child in a family with eight children who all are focusing on music, dance, swimming and acting. In year 2008 the sibling group, who calls themselves BBx8 (B-B times eight), came to the semifinals in ""Sweden's Got Talent"" (""Talang 2008""). Tehilla graduated from the Royal Swedish Ballet in Stockholm in June 2015. In 2005, Tehilla participated in the TV miniseries ""Kvalster"" (""Mites"") which went"
"The Girl in the Spider's Web The Girl in the Spider's Web (original title in , literally ""That which does not kill us"") is the fourth novel in the ""Millennium"" series. It focuses on the characters Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist. Written by David Lagercrantz, this is the first novel in the series not authored by the series' creator and author of the first three ""Millennium"" books, Stieg Larsson, who died of a heart attack in 2004. The novel was released worldwide on 27 August 2015, except in the United States, where it was released on 1 September 2015. 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"
"Rooney Mara Patricia Rooney Mara ( ; born April 17, 1985) is an American actress. She began her career playing supporting roles in several independent films, including the coming-of-age drama film ""Tanner Hall"" (2009), before starring as Nancy Holbrook in the 2010 remake of ""A Nightmare on Elm Street"" and as Erica Albright in the biographical drama film ""The Social Network"" (2010). In 2011, Mara had a career breakthrough when she portrayed Lisbeth Salander, the title character in David Fincher's ""The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"", based on Stieg Larsson's ""Millennium"" book series. She received critical acclaim for her performance"
"""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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"recent traditions about Starkad in north-western Skåne. The plot of the Science Fiction novel ""Ensign Flandry"" by the Danish American writer Poul Anderson takes place on a planet named ""Starkad"". The modern Danish name, ""Stærkodder"" has been used for a war ship in the Royal Danish Navy. Starkad (or ""Starkadder"") is the central figure in a trilogy of fantasy novels by the author Bernard King, which draw heavily from traditional Starkad stories and from other aspects of Norse myth and legend. The trilogy comprises the novels ""Starkadder"" (1985), ""Vargr-Moon"" (1986), and ""Death-Blinder"" (1988). Starkad, as Starkaðr the Mighty, is mentioned"
"Saturn Award for Best Actress on Television in 2015 and 2016, and a People's Choice Award for Favorite Sci-Fi/Fantasy TV Actress in 2016. She also received nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama in 2015 and 2016. Claire Fraser (character) Claire Fraser is a fictional character in the ""Outlander"" series of multi-genre novels by American author Diana Gabaldon, and its television adaptation. In the series, Claire is a married World War II nurse visiting Scotland who finds herself transported from 1945 back to 1743. There she finds adventure, war and romance with the dashing"