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Stieg Larsson

スティーグ・ラーソン

Sutīgu Rāson

Aliases: Karl Stig-Erland Larsson / カール・スティーグ＝アーランド・ラーション

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1954-08-15 （Skellefteå, Sweden）
Died
2004-11-09 （Stockholm, Sweden） age 50
Nationality
Sweden
Languages
Swedish
Residence History
Skellefteå (birthplace) → Stockholm (long-term residence)

Career

Occupations
journalist, novelist, editor, independent researcher
Active Years
1981-2004
Affiliations
Expo (magazine), Skandinavisk Förening för Science Fiction (SFSF)
Memberships
Skandinavisk Förening för Science Fiction (SFSF) board member
Influenced By
Maternal grandfather (communist activist), Trotskyism and left-wing political movements
Influenced
Nordic crime writers (influence on subsequent generation)

Awards

The Glass Key Award
2006
Work: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Organization: NORDIC CRIME (Glass Key committee)
Result: 受賞
The Glass Key Award
2008
Work: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest
Organization: NORDIC CRIME (Glass Key committee)
Result: 受賞
International Dagger (nomination)
2008
Work: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Organization: Crime Writers' Association (CWA)
Result: ノミネート
Crime Thriller Awards (International Author)
2008
Work: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Organization: Crime Thriller Awards
Result: 受賞
Exclusive Books Boeke Prize
2008
Work: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Organization: Exclusive Books
Result: 受賞
Anthony Award (Best First Novel — winner)
2009
Work: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Category: 新人賞
Organization: Anthony Awards committee
Result: 受賞
Barry Award (Best of the Decade)
2010
Work: Millennium series (overall)
Organization: Barry Awards committee
Result: 受賞
Swedish Crime Writers' Academy Award (Best Swedish Crime Novel)
2006
Work: The Girl Who Played with Fire
Category: 長編賞
Organization: Swedish Crime Writers' Academy
Result: 受賞
British Book Awards (Thriller category)
2009
Work: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Category: スリラー賞
Organization: British Book Awards
Result: 受賞
Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! (ranking)
2010
Work: Millennium series
Organization: Takarajimasha / Kono Mystery ga Sugoi!
Result: 2位（2009年頃のランキングで上位）

Awards & Nominations

Glass Key award 2 appearances
  1. Edition 15 (2006) award
    Work: Män som hatar kvinnor

    After a libel case forces magazine editor Mikael Blomkvist from his post, an industrialist asks him to investigate the disappearance of Harriet Vanger, who vanished from a remote island decades earlier. Working with investigator Lisbeth Salander, he follows the Vanger family's memories and records toward a dark history of family secrets and violence against women.

    Mikael and Lisbeth pursue the fragments of an island disappearance into the heart of a family's secrets.

    384 pages
    an unresolved disappearanceinvestigative journalismfamily secretsviolence against women
  2. Edition 17 (2008) award

Works

Major Works

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

2005 Crime fiction, Thriller 464 pages

Journalist Mikael Blomkvist and hacker Lisbeth Salander investigate a decades-old disappearance, uncovering violent crimes and corruption within a wealthy Swedish family.

Violence and sexual abuseCorruption of powerWomen's rights and revenge
Adaptations
  • [Film] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009 Swedish film) / Niels Arden Oplev (2009)
  • [Film] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 US film) / David Fincher (2011)
Translations
  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

The Girl Who Played with Fire

2006 Crime fiction, Thriller 550 pages

New conspiracies and violence surrounding Lisbeth Salander come to light. Past and present intersect as international crime networks and personal vendettas are exposed.

Personal revengeInternational crimeMedia and truth
Adaptations
  • [Film] The Girl Who Played with Fire (2009 Swedish film) / Daniel Alfredson (2009)
Translations
  • The Girl Who Played with Fire

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest

2007 Crime fiction, Thriller 600 pages

Lisbeth's innocence is contested as she and her allies confront a vast conspiracy. The climax exposes corruption within political and security institutions.

State power and surveillanceJustice and the judiciaryIdentity
Adaptations
  • [Film] The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (2009 Swedish film) / Daniel Alfredson (2009)
Translations
  • The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest

Bibliography

  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2005)
  • The Girl Who Played with Fire (2006)
  • The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (2007)

Adaptations

  • Television and film adaptations of the Millennium series (Swedish films 2009; US film 2011)

Translations of Works

  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (English translation)
  • The Girl Who Played with Fire (English translation)
  • The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (English translation)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
social crime fictionmodern realisminvestigative, journalistic detail
Recurring Motifs
women's empowerment and victimizationrise of the far right and political extremismmedia and truth

Health

  • heart attack
    2004-11
    Died of a heart attack in 2004; his writing career ended with his death.

Legacy

Larsson achieved international success posthumously with the Millennium series. Through translations and film adaptations he became a global bestseller author; the series sold tens of millions of copies and helped spur interest in Nordic crime fiction.

Academic Societies

  • Swedish Crime Writers' Academy

In Popular Culture

  • Through film and TV adaptations, Lisbeth Salander became an international pop-culture figure
  • Representative figure of the Nordic noir boom

Trivia

  • Larsson's Millennium series was published posthumously and became a major international success.
  • By 2015 the series had reportedly sold around 80 million copies worldwide.
  • He worked for many years as an investigative journalist researching the far right and related human rights issues.