Stieg Larsson
About
Biography
Filmography
Writer (Feature Film)
Life Events
1977
Worked as a graphic designer at the largest Swedish news agency Tidningarnas Telegrambyrå (TT)
1983
Began a 30-year stint as the Scandinavian correspondent of the British antiracist and antifascist magazine Searchlight
1995
Founded Expo magazine, the Swedish counterpart to Searchlight; the publication was reportedly the inspiration for the fictional magazine in his Millennium trilogy of crime novels
2004
Left behind manuscripts of three completed but unpublished novels written as a series, which were posthumously published as the Millennium trilogy
2005
First novel published in Sweden, Män som hatar kvinnor/Men who hate women; titled for the English market as The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and released in the U.K. in 2008
2006
Second novel published, Flickan som lekte med elden/The Girl Who Played with Fire; released in the U.K. in 2009
2007
Third novel, Luftslottet som sprängdes/The air castle that was blown up; titled in English as The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest, and published in the U.K. in 2009 and in the U.S. in 2010
2009
Feature films based on all three novels released in Sweden, starring Noomi Rapace as Larsson's heroine Lisbeth Salander and Michael Nyqvist as Mikael Blomkvist
2011
U.S. adaptation of the first novel "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" released, directed by David Fincher and screenplay by Steven Zaillian; starred Rooney Mara as Lisbeth and Daniel Craig as Mikael
