Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy – A Must Read

Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy – A Must Read As a journalist and editor of a magazine, Larsson was active in documenting and exposing Swedish extreme right and racist organisations. Before his career as a writer, Stieg Larsson was mostly known for his struggle against racism and right-wing extremism. Starting in the late 1970's, he combined his work as a graphic designer with holding lectures on right-wing extremism for the Scotland Yard. Stieg Larsson grew up in the Swedish coastal town of Umea and was a graphic designer before becoming a journalist and leading investigator of far-right political groups. He founded and edited the left-wing magazine Expo, and wrote crime novels in the evenings to relax.

His first fiction writing efforts were not in crime fiction, but in science fiction. When he died, Larsson left behind manuscripts of three completed but unpublished novels written as a series. The millennium series, is a mind-blowing series with an intricately weaved murder-mystery plot with varied characters. It was titled for the English market as The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and published in the United Kingdom in February 2008, was awarded the Glass Key award as the best Nordic crime novel. The second novel, The Girl Who Played with Fire, received the Best Swedish Crime Novel Award. The third novel in the Millennium series, published in English as The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest, was published in the United Kingdom in October 2009, and the United States in May 2010.

Readers all over are talking about Stieg Larsson’s best-selling novels (The Millennium Trilogy) that is set in Sweden and features Lisbeth Salander, who is said to be “one of the most original and memorable heroines to surface in a recent thriller. His trilogy has sold more than 20 million copies in 41 countries, and Stieg Larsson's successful novels in the Millennium-series is now being filmed. He was the second bestselling author in the world 2008, after Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner.

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