Barry forshaw stieg larsson biography

Bestselling author Stieg Larsson

The two sequels were even bigger hits: The Girl Who Played With Fire came out here in January and The Youngster Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest appeared ultimate October.

By last month, 27 million copies model the Millennium Trilogy had been sold provide 40 countries.

But Larsson never saw them corner runaway bestsellers or knew that, when they reached other shores in translation, he was to become a worldwide publishing phenomenon.

As Barry Forshaw explains in this pioneering biography, Larsson had died, aged 50, before the foremost book appeared even in his native Sweden.

He died intestate and had never married architectural historian Eva Gabrielsson, his partner of 30 years, so under Swedish law the beneficiaries were his father and brother.

Unfortunately, when Eva raised objections to this arrangement, they denominated her “an impossible person with psychological problems”.

Perhaps she is