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60-455: Karl Stig-Erland " Stieg " Larsson ( / s t iː ɡ ˈ l ɑːr s ə n / , Swedish: [ˈkɑːɭ stiːɡ ˈæ̌ːɭand ˈlɑ̌ːʂɔn] ; 15 August 1954 – 9 November 2004) was a Swedish writer, journalist , and activist. He is best known for writing the Millennium trilogy of crime novels , which were published posthumously, starting in 2005, after he died of a sudden heart attack. The trilogy

120-468: A feminist . The author never forgave himself for failing to help the girl, and this inspired the themes of sexual violence against women in his books. According to Gabrielsson, the Millennium trilogy allowed Larsson to express a worldview he was never able to elucidate as a journalist. She described, in great detail, how the fundamental narratives of his three books were essentially fictionalised portraits of

180-450: A newsworthy form and disseminates it to the public. This is called journalism . Journalists can be broadcast, print, advertising or public relations personnel. Depending on the form of journalism, "journalist" may also describe various categories of people by the roles they play in the process. These include reporters, correspondents , citizen journalists , editors , editorial writers , columnists and photojournalists . A reporter

240-545: A "knowledge journalist" as a public intellectual who, like Walter Lippmann , Fareed Zakaria , Naomi Klein , Michael Pollan , and Andrew Revkin , sees their role as researching complicated issues of fact or science which most laymen would not have the time or access to information to research themselves, then communicating an accurate and understandable version to the public as a teacher and policy advisor. In his best-known books, Public Opinion (1922) and The Phantom Public (1925), Lippmann argued that most people lacked

300-602: A Swedish author and journalist, to continue the Millennium series. Lagercrantz did not have access to the material in Gabrielsson's possession, which remains unpublished. The new book was published in August 2015 in connection with the 10th anniversary of the series, under the Swedish title Det som inte dödar oss (literally "That which doesn't kill us"); the English title is The Girl in

360-459: A grown-up Pippi Longstocking as he chose to sketch her. Additional connections to Lindgren's literary work are in the Larsson novels; for example, the other main character, Mikael Blomkvist , is frequently referred to mockingly by his detractors as " Kalle Blomkvist ", the name of a fictional teenaged detective created by Lindgren. The name Salander was actually inspired by the strong female character in

420-439: A notebook computer, now possessed by his partner, Eva Gabrielsson ; synopses or manuscripts of the fifth and sixth in the series, which he intended to comprise an eventual total of ten books, may also exist. Gabrielsson has stated in her book "There Are Things I Want You to Know" About Stieg Larsson and Me (2011) that she feels capable of finishing the book. In 2013, Swedish publisher Norstedts contracted David Lagercrantz ,

480-403: A professional journalist and a source can be rather complex, and a source can sometimes have an effect on an article written by the journalist. The article 'A Compromised Fourth Estate' uses Herbert Gans' metaphor to capture their relationship. He uses a dance metaphor, "The Tango", to illustrate the co-operative nature of their interactions inasmuch as "It takes two to tango". Herbert suggests that

540-468: A separate category from fanzines in 1984 after Locus won the award for best fanzine several years running (See Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine ). Well-known semiprozines include Locus , Ansible , The New York Review of Science Fiction , and Interzone . Amateur press associations (APAs) publish fanzines made up of the contributions of the individual members collected into an assemblage or bundle called an apazine . The first science-fiction APA

600-463: A significant number of his literary influences were American and British crime/detective fiction authors. His heroine has some similarities with Carol O'Connell 's "Mallory", who first appeared in Mallory's Oracle (1994). In his work Larsson made a habit of inserting the names of some of his favourites within the text, sometimes by making his characters read the works of Larsson's favorite authors. Topping

660-479: A study by Jan Stocklassa of Larsson's research into Olof Palme's assassination was released in Swedish, and in English the following year, translated by Tara F. Chace, under the title The Man Who Played with Fire: Stieg Larsson's Lost Files and the Hunt for an Assassin . Since 2009 Larsson's family and Norstedts have instituted an annual award of 200,000 Swedish Krona (US$ 18,668 in 2022 terms) in memory of him. The prize

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720-526: A well-known author well before Stieg did. The pronunciation is the same regardless of spelling. Larsson died of a heart attack after climbing the stairs to work on 9 November 2004; he was 50. He is interred at the Högalid Church cemetery in the district of Södermalm in Stockholm. In May 2008, it was announced that a 1977 will , found soon after Larsson's death, declared his wish to leave his assets to

780-468: Is a type of journalist who researches , writes and reports on information in order to present using sources . This may entail conducting interviews , information-gathering and/or writing articles. Reporters may split their time between working in a newsroom , from home or outside to witness events or interview people. Reporters may be assigned a specific beat (area of coverage). Matthew C. Nisbet , who has written on science communication , has defined

840-498: Is awarded to a person or organisation working in Stieg Larsson's spirit. The recipient in 2015 was Chinese author Yang Jisheng for his notable work Tombstone which describes the consequences of The Three Years of Great Chinese Famine . The Millennium series : Science fiction fanzines: Other: Journalist A journalist is a person who gathers information in the form of text, audio or pictures, processes it into

900-448: Is derived from the jargon of the fanzine fans. See fanzine , fanspeak . The fanzine movement is now well represented on the Web; see webzine . Fanzine readers and producers naturally gather at science fiction conventions , but there are also small conventions dedicated to fanzines. The first fanzine-only annual convention was Autoclave, held by a Detroit-based fan group for several years in

960-756: Is included in the biographical essays written by Larsson's friend John-Henri Holmberg in The Tattooed Girl , by Holmberg with Dan Burstein and Arne De Keijzer, 2011. In early June 2010, manuscripts for two such stories, as well as fanzines with one or two others, were noted in the National Library of Sweden (to which this material had been donated a few years earlier, mainly by the Alvar Appeltofft Memorial Foundation, which works to further science-fiction fandom in Sweden). This discovery of what

1020-797: The Best Swedish Crime Novel Award in 2006 and was published in the United Kingdom in January 2009. The third novel, Luftslottet som sprängdes (literally "The castle in the air which was blown up"), 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. Larsson left about three-quarters of a fourth novel on

1080-914: The Committee to Protect Journalists and Reporters Without Borders publish reports on press freedom and advocate for journalistic freedom. As of November 2024, the Committee to Protect Journalists reports that 1625 journalists have been killed worldwide since 1992 by murder (71%), crossfire or combat (17%), or on dangerous assignment (11%). The "ten deadliest countries" for journalists since 1992 have been Iraq (230 deaths), Philippines (109), Russia (77), Colombia (76), Mexico (69), Algeria (61), Pakistan (59), India (49), Somalia (45), Brazil (31) and Sri Lanka (30). The Committee to Protect Journalists also reports that as of 1 December 2010, 145 journalists were jailed worldwide for journalistic activities. Current numbers are even higher. The ten countries with

1140-446: The Hamas attack , Russian invasion of Ukraine and the presidential election . American consumers turned away from journalists at legacy organizations as social media became a common news source. Journalists sometimes expose themselves to danger, particularly when reporting in areas of armed conflict or in states that do not respect the freedom of the press . Organizations such as

1200-603: The Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications at Northwestern University . In January 2024, The Los Angeles Times , Time magazine and National Geographic all conducted layoffs, and Condé Nast journalists went on strike over proposed job cuts. The Los Angeles Times laid off more than 20% of the newsroom. CNN , Sports Illustrated and NBC News shed employees in early 2024. The New York Times reported that Americans were suffering from “news fatigue” due to coverage of major news stories like

1260-740: The Millennium series. The first book in the series was published in Sweden as Män som hatar kvinnor (literally " Men who hate women ") in 2005. It was titled for the English-language market as The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and published in the United Kingdom in February 2008. It was awarded the Glass Key award as the best Nordic crime novel in 2005. His second novel, Flickan som lekte med elden (2006, The Girl Who Played with Fire ), received

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1320-627: The Umeå branch of the Communist Workers League (now the Socialist Party ). As the will was unwitnessed, it was not valid under Swedish law, with the result that all of Larsson's estate, including future royalties from book sales, went to his father and brother, Joakim (1957-2024). His long-term partner Eva Gabrielsson , who found the will, had no legal right to the inheritance, sparking controversy between his father and brother and her. Reportedly,

1380-539: The wire services , in radio , or for news magazines . Science-fiction fanzine The first science-fiction fanzine, The Comet , was published in 1930 by the Science Correspondence Club in Chicago . The term "fanzine" was coined by Russ Chauvenet in the October 1940 issue of his fanzine Detours . "Fanzines" were distinguished from "prozines", that is, all professional magazines . Prior to that,

1440-565: The Danish film production company Nordisk Film . The three films were all released in 2009 in Scandinavia. Sony Pictures released a film adaptation of the first book in the Millennium series. Directed by David Fincher , The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was released in 2011. Plans for sequels were ultimately scrapped. Through his written works, as well as in interviews, Larsson acknowledged that

1500-536: The Dragon Tattoo in northern Sweden, which Gabrielsson calls "godforsaken places at the back of beyond." Larsson was not as fond of the urban environment in the city Umeå , where he resided with his parents after his grandfather, Severin Boström, died of a heart attack at age 50. Larsson earned a secondary diploma in social sciences in 1972. He applied to the Joint Colleges of Journalism in Stockholm, but he failed

1560-570: The English title is The Girl Who Lived Twice . The seventh book in the Millennium series was released in November 2022. The Swedish title is Havsörnens skrik (literally "The cry of the sea eagle") and the English title is The Girl in the Eagle's Talons , written by Karin Smirnoff . The Swedish film production company Yellow Bird has produced film versions of the Millennium series, co-produced with

1620-463: The Kalle Blomkvist trilogy by Astrid Lindgren, Kalle's girlfriend Eva-Lotte Lisander. Larsson has said when he was 15 years old, he witnessed three of his friends gang-raping a young girl, which led to his lifelong abhorrence of violence and abuse against women. His longtime partner, Eva Gabrielsson, writes that this incident "marked him for life" in a chapter of her book that describes Larsson as

1680-660: The Scandinavian SF Society, of which he was a board member in 1978 and 1979, and chairman in 1980. In his first fanzines , 1972–74, he published a handful of early short stories, while submitting others to other semiprofessional or amateur magazines. He was co-editor or editor of several science-fiction fanzines, including Sfären and FIJAGH! ; in 1978–79, he was president of the largest Swedish science-fiction fan club, Skandinavisk Förening för Science Fiction. An account of this period in Larsson's life, along with detailed information on his fanzine writing and short stories,

1740-514: The Spider's Web . The fifth book in the Millennium series was released in September 2017. The Swedish title is Mannen som sökte sin skugga (literally "The man who hunted his shadow") and the English title is The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye . The sixth book in the Millennium series was released in August 2019. The Swedish title is Hon som måste dö (literally "She who must die") and

1800-680: The Sweden few people knew, a place where latent white supremacy found expression in all aspects of contemporary life, and anti-extremists lived in persistent fear of attack. "Everything of this nature described in the Millennium trilogy has happened at one time or another to a Swedish citizen, journalist, politician, public prosecutor, unionist, or policeman," she writes. "Nothing was made up." Similarities also exist between Larsson's Lisbeth Salander and Peter O'Donnell 's Modesty Blaise . Both are women from disastrous childhoods, who somehow survive to become adults with notable skills, including fighting, and who accomplish good by operating somewhat outside

1860-724: The Swedish Expo Foundation, similar to the British Searchlight Foundation, established to "counteract the growth of the extreme right and the white power culture in schools and among young people." He also became the editor of the foundation's magazine, Expo , in 1995. When he was not at his day job, he worked on independent research into right-wing extremism in Sweden. In 1991, his research resulted in his first book, Extremhögern ( The Extreme Right ). Larsson quickly became instrumental in documenting and exposing Swedish extreme right and racist organisations. He

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1920-605: The age of nine, Larsson lived with his grandparents in a small wooden house in the countryside, near the village of Bjursele in Norsjö Municipality , Västerbotten County . He attended the village school and used cross-country skis to get to and from school during the long, snowy winters in northern Sweden, experiences that he remembered fondly. In the book "There Are Things I Want You to Know" About Stieg Larsson and Me , Eva Gabrielsson describes this as Larsson's motivation for setting part of his first novel The Girl with

1980-403: The capacity, time and motivation to follow and analyze news of the many complex policy questions that troubled society. Nor did they often experience most social problems or directly access expert insights. These limitations were made worse by a news media that tended to oversimplify issues and to reinforce stereotypes , partisan viewpoints and prejudices . As a consequence, Lippmann believed that

2040-520: The country reportedly go unsolved. Bulgarian Victoria Marinova was beaten, raped and strangled. Saudi Arabian dissident Jamal Khashoggi was killed inside Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul. From 2008 to 2019, Freedom Forum 's now-defunct Newseum in Washington, D.C. featured a Journalists Memorial which honored several thousand journalists around the world who had died or were killed while reporting

2100-506: The couple never married because under Swedish law those entering marriage were required to make their addresses publicly available, which may have been a "security risk" as Larsson feared retaliation from violent extremists. An article in Vanity Fair discusses Gabrielsson's dispute with Larsson's relatives, which has also been well-covered in the Swedish press. She claims the author had little contact with his father and brother, and requests

2160-575: The entrance examination. In 1974, Larsson was drafted into the Swedish Army under the conscription law. He spent 16 months in compulsory military service, training as a mortarman in an infantry unit in Kalmar County . His mother Vivianne also died early, in 1991, from complications of breast cancer and an aneurysm . On his 12th birthday, Larsson's parents gave him a typewriter as a birthday gift. Larsson's first efforts at writing fiction were in

2220-464: The fan publications were known as "fanmags" or "letterzines". Traditionally, science-fiction fanzines were (and many still are) available for "the usual", meaning that a sample issue will be mailed on request; to receive further issues, a reader sends a "letter of comment" (LoC) about the fanzine to the editor. The LoC might be published in the next issue: some fanzines consisted almost exclusively of letter columns, where discussions were conducted in much

2280-660: The following profile: In 2019 the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism Digital News Report described the future for journalists in South Africa as “grim” because of low online revenue and plummeting advertising. In 2020 Reporters Without Borders secretary general Christophe Deloire said journalists in developing countries were suffering political interference because the COVID-19 pandemic had given governments around

2340-579: The form of a targeted sexual violation, often in reprisal for their work. Mob-related sexual violence aimed against journalists covering public events; or the sexual abuse of journalists in detention or captivity. Many of these crimes are not reported as a result of powerful cultural and professional stigmas. Increasingly, journalists (particularly women) are abused and harassed online, via hate speech , cyber-bullying , cyber-stalking , doxing, trolling, public shaming , intimidation and threats. According to Reporters Without Borders ' 2018 annual report, it

2400-496: The fourth estate being driven by the fifth estate of public relations. Journalists can face violence and intimidation for exercising their fundamental right to freedom of expression . The range of threats they are confronted with include murder, kidnapping , hostage-taking, offline and online harassment, intimidation , enforced disappearances, arbitrary detention and torture. Women in journalism also face specific dangers and are especially vulnerable to sexual assault, whether in

2460-432: The genre of science fiction . As an avid science fiction reader from an early age, he became active in Swedish science fiction fandom around 1971; he co-edited, with Rune Forsgren, his first fanzine , Sfären , in 1972; and he attended his first science fiction convention , SF•72, in Stockholm. Through the 1970s, Larsson published around 30 additional fanzine issues; after his move to Stockholm in 1971, he became active in

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2520-404: The largest number of currently-imprisoned journalists are Turkey (95), China (34), Iran (34), Eritrea (17), Burma (13), Uzbekistan (6), Vietnam (5), Cuba (4), Ethiopia (4) and Sudan (3). Apart from physical harm, journalists are harmed psychologically. This applies especially to war reporters, but their editorial offices at home often do not know how to deal appropriately with

2580-478: The law. One of Larsson's villains, Ronald Niedermann (blond hulk), has much in common with the invulnerable, sociopathic giant named Simon Delicata in the fourth Modesty Blaise book A Taste for Death . Stieg Larsson was the first author to sell more than one million e-books on Amazon.com . Kurdo Baksi , Larsson's former colleague at Expo , published Min vän Stieg Larsson ("My Friend Stieg Larsson") in January 2010. Barry Forshaw's English language biography

2640-409: The list were Sara Paretsky , Agatha Christie , Val McDermid , Dorothy L. Sayers , Elizabeth George , and Enid Blyton . One of the strongest influences originates from his own country: Pippi Longstocking , by Sweden's much-loved children's author Astrid Lindgren . Larsson explained that one of his main recurring characters in the Millennium series, Lisbeth Salander , is actually fashioned on

2700-880: The news. After the Newseum closed in December 2019, supporters of freedom of the press persuaded the United States Congress in December 2020 to authorize the construction of a memorial to fallen journalists on public land with private funds. By May 2023, the Fallen Journalists Memorial Foundation had begun the design of the memorial. In the US, nearly all journalists have attended university, but only about half majored in journalism. Journalists who work in television or for newspapers are more likely to have studied journalism in college than journalists working for

2760-528: The public needed journalists like himself who could serve as expert analysts, guiding "citizens to a deeper understanding of what was really important". In 2018, the United States Department of Labor's Occupational Outlook Handbook reported that employment for the category "reporters, correspondents and broadcast news analysts" will decline 9 percent between 2016 and 2026. A worldwide sample of 27,500 journalists in 67 countries in 2012–2016 produced

2820-606: The reporters they expose to danger. Hence, a systematic and sustainable way of psychological support for traumatized journalists is strongly needed. Few and fragmented support programs exist so far. On 8 August 2023, Iran's Journalists' Day, Tehran Journalists' Association head Akbar Montajabi noted over 100 journalists arrested amid protests, while HamMihan newspaper exposed repression against 76 media workers since September 2022 following Mahsa Amini's death-triggered mass protests, leading to legal consequences for journalists including Niloufar Hamedi and Elaheh. The relationship between

2880-480: The rights to control his work so it may be presented in the way he would have wanted. Larsson's story was featured on the 10 October 2010 segment of CBS News Sunday Morning . Larsson had originally planned a series of 10 books and had completed two and most of a third when he began looking for publishers. At the time of his death in 2004, only three had been completed, and although accepted for publication, none had yet been printed. These were published posthumously as

2940-783: The same way as they are in internet newsgroups and mailing lists , though at a relatively slow pace. Since 1955, the annual Worldcon has awarded Hugo Awards for Best Fanzine ; awards for Best Fan Writer and Best Fan Artist were added in 1967 and have continued since then. During the 1970s and 1980s, some fanzines—especially sercon (serious and constructive) zines devoted to science fiction and fantasy criticism, and newszines such as Locus —became more professional journals, produced by desktop publishing programs and offset printing . These new magazines were labeled "semiprozines", and were eventually sold rather than traded, and paid their contributors. Some semiprozines publish original fiction. The Hugo Awards recognized semiprozines as

3000-513: The source often leads, but journalists commonly object to this notion for two reasons: The dance metaphor goes on to state: A relationship with sources that is too cozy is potentially compromising of journalists' integrity and risks becoming collusive. Journalists have typically favored a more robust, conflict model, based on a crucial assumption that if the media are to function as watchdogs of powerful economic and political interests, journalists must establish their independence of sources or risk

3060-536: The weekly Internationalen . Larsson spent parts of 1977 in Eritrea , training a squad of female Eritrean People's Liberation Front guerrillas in the use of mortars. He was forced to abandon that work after he contracted a kidney disease. Upon his return to Sweden, he worked as a graphic designer at the largest Swedish news agency, Tidningarnas Telegrambyrå , between 1977 and 1999. Larsson's political convictions, as well as his journalistic experiences, led him to found

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3120-497: The world the chance “to take advantage of the fact that politics are on hold, the public is stunned and protests are out of the question, in order to impose measures that would be impossible in normal times”. In 2023 the closure of local newspapers in the US accelerated to an average of 2.5 per week, leaving more than 200 US counties as “news deserts” and meaning that more than half of all U.S. counties had limited access to reliable local news and information, according to researchers at

3180-526: Was adapted as three motion pictures in Sweden , and one in the U.S. (for the first book only). The publisher commissioned David Lagercrantz to write the next trilogy, and Karin Smirnoff to write the third trilogy in the series, which has seven novels as of September 2024. For much of his life, Larsson lived and worked in Stockholm . His journalistic work covered socialist politics and he acted as an independent researcher of right-wing extremism . He

3240-414: Was an influential debater and lecturer on the subject, reportedly living for years under death threats from his political enemies. The political party Sweden Democrats ( Sverigedemokraterna ) was a major subject of his research. Larsson's first name was originally Stig, which is the standard spelling. In his early 20s, he changed it to avoid confusion with his friend Stig Larsson , who went on to become

3300-646: Was born in Skelleftehamn , Västerbottens län , Sweden, the son of Erland Larsson (born 1935) and his wife Vivianne, née Boström (1937–1991). His father and maternal grandfather worked in the Rönnskärsverken smelting plant in Skelleftehamn. Suffering from arsenic poisoning , his father resigned from his job, and the family subsequently moved to Stockholm . However, because of their cramped living conditions, they chose to let one-year-old Larsson remain behind. Until

3360-525: Was called "unknown" works by Larsson generated considerable publicity. While working as a photographer, Larsson became engaged in far-left political activism. He became a member of Kommunistiska Arbetareförbundet (Communist Workers' League), edited the Swedish Trotskyist journal Fjärde internationalen , journal of the Swedish section of the Fourth International . He wrote regularly for

3420-486: Was published in April 2010. Larsson's widow Eva Gabrielsson released her memoir Millennium, Stieg & jag in 2011, published in English the same year as "There Are Things I Want You to Know" About Stieg Larsson and Me . In 2012, French comics artist Frédéric Rébéna drew a graphic biography of Larsson scripted by Guillaume Lebeau and entitled Stieg Larsson, avant Millenium , which was published by Denoël Graphic. In 2018

3480-551: Was the Fantasy Amateur Press Association (FAPA) formed by a group of science-fiction fans in 1937. Some APAs are still active as hardcopy publications, and some are published as virtual "e-zines", distributed on the internet . The term "fanzine" is also used to refer to fan-created magazines concerning other topics: the earliest rock-and-roll fanzines were edited by science-fiction fans. A significant part of modern computer/Web/Internet slang, abbreviations, etc.

3540-545: Was the second-best-selling fiction author in the world for 2008, owing to the success of the English translation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo , behind the Afghan-American Khaled Hosseini . The third and final novel in the Millennium trilogy, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest , became the bestselling book in the United States in 2010, according to Publishers Weekly . By March 2015, his series had sold 80 million copies worldwide. Stieg Larsson

3600-491: Was the worst year on record for deadly violence and abuse toward journalists; there was a 15 percent increase in such killings since 2017, with 80 killed, 348 imprisoned and 60 held hostage. Yaser Murtaja was shot by an Israeli army sniper. Rubén Pat was gunned down outside a beach bar in Mexico. Mexico was described by Reporters Without Borders as "one of world's deadliest countries for the media"; 90% of attacks on journalists in

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