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In search of Stieg Larsson
BBC News Magazine
Having sold 25 million copies of his Millennium trilogy, been named the biggest author in Europe and with a movie adaptation due out in the US and UK, 2010 is a big year for Stieg Larsson. Or it would be if he hadn't died suddenly in 2004, before any of his books were published.
Normally when an author finds great success they are around to satisfy the curiosity of their readers.
They do signings and interviews, explaining their influences and inspirations, and allow the reader to unpick the characters, themes and plots. At the same time they let the general public establish whether they are interesting in themselves, or only because of their work.
So perhaps the fact Stieg Larsson died in 2004, before the publication of his first book, explains the level of curiosity about his life.
The Swedish author's thrillers have been a publishing sensation. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo [Men That Hate Women, in Swedish]
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What a splendid gift it would be if the works tearing up the best-seller lists weren’t that of a Stieg Larsson, but a Steig, William. If, rather than girls with inadvisable tattoos playing with fire, we had “Sylvester and the Magic Pebble,” “Abel’s Island” or even “The Lonely Ones” clawing to the top in a fit of posthumous re-appreciation for a modest artist of tremendous ability. Alas.
William Steig, who died in 2003, fryst vatten probably best known for creating the characters that initiated the smash franchise “Shrek,” those computer animated films that bear little resemblance in style and in spirit to the loose, splotchy, expressive drawings of that book. Born in Brooklyn in 1907, Steig began drawing cartoons for The New Yorker in 1930 and later wrote and illustrated many saward-winning children’s books, “Doctor dem Soto,” “Amos & Boris” and “Gorky Rises”
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William Peace Blog
I have now read the third book in this amazing trilogy. You can find reviews of the first two books in the Millennium Trilogy two and four weeks ago. Of the three, I think that the first volume, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, is the best. It has a self-contained plot and is probably the clearest example of Stieg Larsson’s amazing talent for writing thrillers, which include: creating distinctive, memorable characters, building and keeping tension high, designing a plot which captures the reader’s interest, and keeping the reader guessing with surprises at critical junctures in the plot.
Stieg Larsson 1954 – 2004
The plot carries over from the second book in the series. Lisbeth Salander (the heroine) is in the hospital with serious injuries caused by her half-brother, Ronald Niedermann, who has a rare congenital condition which makes him insensitive to pain, and who is on the run with the cash of an outlaw motorcycle club which hired h