Stieg Larsson
Summary
Karl Stig-Erland Larsson (15 August 1954 – 9 November 2004) was a Swedish journalist and writer, born in Skelleftehamn outside Skellefteå. He is best known for writing the Millennium Trilogy of crime novels which were published posthumously. He was the second best-selling author in the world in 2008, behind Khaled Hosseini. By March 2010, his Millennium trilogy had sold 27 million copies in more than 40 countries. Larsson was initially a political activist for the Kommunistiska Arbetareförbundet (Communist Workers League, a photographer, and one of Sweden's leading science fiction fans. In politics he was the editor of the Swedish Trotskyist journal Fjärde internationalen.
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Ebook Bestsellers Breakdown: Nordic noir (but it’s not Stieg Larsson)
What it’s about: Danish nurse Nina Borg discovers a three-year-old boy in a suitcase, naked and drugged and alive. As she treks across Denmark to find out where he came from and how to get him back, her life is in danger. It’s #25 on the New York Times ebook bestseller list this week.
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Startup Livrada to sell ebook gift cards in U.S. Target stores
In an effort to make ebook gift-giving more spontaneous and fun, Los Angeles-based startup Livrada is partnering with Target to sell gift cards for bestselling ebook titles like 50 Shades of Grey and Gone Girl in the chain’s 1,771 stores nationwide.
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Quercus profits drop as it battles to repeat Girl with the Dragon Tattoo success
Quercus, the publisher behind Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, more than doubled digital revenues last year but saw profits slip as it battled to come up with another bestseller on the same scale.
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The bestsellers breakdown: Desert island romance
“On the Island” by Tracey Garvis-Graves (self-published, $2. 99). “On the Island” is #8 on the New York Times e-book bestseller list this week, and #16 on the USA today list. The book, released in September 2011, has sold 157,291 copies as of yesterday, Garvis-Graves told me.
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Claire Danes: getting under the skin of Homeland's troubled CIA agent
The former child star has faced repeated challenges playing Carrie Mathison in Channel 4's hit US drama series.
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Ad of the Day: 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo'
Usually it's the trailers that do the heavy lifting in promoting a film. But in the case of David Fincher's The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, it's the opening title sequence that's drawing rave reviews.
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Stieg Larsson’s ‘Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ makes the case for strong journalism
CJR “If highbrow American journalists would look up from their decaf soy lattés, they might find much to cheer, or at least to ponder, in Larsson’s trilogy,” writes Eric Alterman. “For in addition to earning its bona fides as a… Read more.
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Reading is alive and increasingly electronic
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Times may be tough for neighborhood bookstores, but people are reading more than ever and e-books are nurturing bookworms who hunger for everything from blockbuster biographies to literary fiction.
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Netflix UK to stream Miramax films including Pulp Fiction
Netflix gains exclusive rights to deliver Hollywood studio's films when it launches in the UK and Ireland next year.
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For Stieg Larsson Fans, New Editions to Savor
"The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest'' is coming out in paperback, and there will be a new edition tied into the movie version of "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. ''.
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