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Stieg Larsson
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15 August 1954 - 9 November 2004
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Swedish writer and journalist Carl Stig-Erland Larsson was born on August 15, 1954. His parents were only 17 when he was born, so he spent his childhood with his grandmother and only ten years moved to his parents. At 16, the boy felt old enough to leave his parents and start an independent life. Stig joined the Socialist Party of Sweden, was an editor at the Fourth International magazine, and wrote articles for the daily Internazional. In 1977, he taught the women’s detachment of the Popular Front
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Swedish writer and journalist Carl Stig-Erland Larsson was born on August 15, 1954. His parents were only 17 when he was born, so he spent his childhood with his grandmother and only ten years moved to his parents. At 16, the boy felt old enough to leave his parents and start an independent life. Stig joined the Socialist Party of Sweden, was an editor at the Fourth International magazine, and wrote articles for the daily Internazional. In 1977, he taught the women’s detachment of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Eritrea how to use a grenade launcher, but due to kidney disease he was forced to leave this job. Back in Sweden, Larsson became a graphic designer at a major news agency.
At the age of 18, Stig met Eva Gabrielson, who became his faithful companion and life companion. In 1981, they went together to study the development of the revolution in liberated Grenada.
In 1982, Stig Larsson founded the Swedish organization Expo. Her activities were directed against the spread of Nazi, racist and far-right views among Swedish youth. He later published a magazine of the same name.
Larsson’s name has been recognized worldwide through his Millennium trilogy. The first book, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, was published in 2005, followed by The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Blows Up Castles in Air in 2006 and 2007, respectively. Unfortunately, the fact that his trilogy is called a publishing sensation of recent years, the author never learned. In 2004, Stig Larsson's heart stopped. He was 50. Books have been translated into dozens of languages and published in multimillion copies. According to the author's idea, "Millennium" was supposed to be a ten-volume book, but before his death he managed to write only a hundred pages of the fourth part.