Larsson, who was born in a village in northern Sweden in 1954, was an ardent oppositionsgrupperinger all his life. Nineteen-eighties so due to immigration, Sweden, as well as other countries, in a sharp increase in racism. Suddenly, there were neo-Nazis and Aryan leagues, and the parties involved was no longer the frenzied souls Mimeograph machines operate in basements but slippery characters in costumes, running for public office. In 1995, Larsson and some friends founded in Stockholm, a quarterly magazine, Expo, with the stated mission of security "democracy and freedom of expression by ... document the extremist and racist groups in society." The Expo was undisguisedly model for the Millennium, the journal Blomkvists home base in the trilogy.
Larsson's anti-authoritarian writings won him many enemies and Expo. Printers and distributors of the magazine had their Windows messed up. Larsson received death threats. He took the measures. He allowed any photographs. In restaurants, he and his companion, Eva Gabrielsson, sat so he could see one of the year, she is the second.
In spite of all this is said Larsson to have been a happy man, as the fine life he desired. He smoked three packs a day, lived on hamburgers and often worked around the clock. He consumed popular novels, in particular, crime fiction, of cartload. And then, in 2001, in a move that no one has been able to explain the satisfactory — and on which for a long time, he told almost none — he began to write crime fiction. Later, he said that he did it for fun. Or he said that it was for money — that the books will be his "pension fund". He wrote quickly, easily, and late in the evening. In 2003, he had the trilogy first volume, which in English is called "the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo." This is a fairly conventional detective Novel, except that the culprits are the Nazis and neo-Nazis and crimes are unusually cruel: incestuose rape (homo and exclusively) plus murder kind of most appalling. One victim is gagged with a sanitary napkin and stoned to death. Another is bound and placed with her face in a bed of dying EMBERS.
Larsson submitted the manuscript to Piratforlag, a Publisher with a strong line of crime novels. Editors who never opened the package. (They do not read manuscripts from the first time authors). Today almost one pities them. Publisher, accepted the Millennium trilogy — Norstedts Forlag, the other company Larsson contacted — has sold three and a half million copies of books.
Editing went slowly because Larsson was always overscheduled. "Stieg Larsson" contains a series of email exchange between him and his Norstedts editor, Eva Gedin. In them we find Gedin ask politely Larsson, but with increasing weight, to make room in his schedule to meet with her and hear her editorial suggestions. He responds to the unconscious, that he will do so, at the end. One afternoon, seven months after the contract was signed, he went to work at the Expo, found that the elevator was broken, climbed seven flights of stairs, had a heart attack and died. He was fifty.
Partly because Larsson was not Alive when the books were published, there have been surrounded the Millennium trilogy of a number of controversies, juiciest becomes the question of who should receive the assets of the books have earned. The most deserving recipient of the aid, which many people saw it, was Eva Gabrielsson, which was not only Larsson's companion three decades, but also, at various times, supported him, not to mention putting with the fact that he usually came home around midnight. Two of them never married, but. Larsson — and later Gabrielsson — said that this was a way to protect her; She would not run his risks. Years earlier, Larsson had written a will leaving his entire estate to the Communist Workers Party of his hometown, but was not a witness to and was therefore not valid. When the Swedes die intestate, everything will be assigned their kin — a strange law in a country where unregistered trade unions is almost the norm. In any case gone Vrian money to the two surviving members of his immediate family, his father and his brother.These two men were not ignorant of the awkwardness of their position. They gave Gabrielsson Larsson, half of the apartment she shared with him. They also proposed to pay her $ 2.7 million, of a solution. She rejected this offer, at which point the relationship between the two parties grew uncomfortable. Gabrielsson told the press that Larsson had been excluded from his father and brother. The proposed, on the other hand, that it was psychologically disturbed. Gabrielsson The story was even more exciting when the news got to Gabrielsson had Vrian laptop, which, according to several sources (including her), contained more than half of a fourth novel, plus notes for the rest — in other words, enough material, so that another could finish it, and it could still be called a Stieg Larsson Roman. (Some by Vrian voting rights to say he had plans for ten novels, and had started fifth and fourth.) Have Gabrielsson really the portable computer? At one point she told the press that she had given it to the Expo. Elsewhere, she said, "no comment." Reports, we will find the answer when Gabrielssons memoir is released, next year. In the meantime, think a lot of people that she has been terribly violated. If you call up www.supporteva.com, you can make a contribution to her upkeep.
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