Stieg Larsson (15 August 1954 - 9 November 2004) was a Swedish journalist and writer. He was born in Skelleftehamn outside Skellefteå, Sweden as Karl Stig-Erland Larsson. He is notable for his authorship of the Millennium series of crime novels which are being published posthumously.

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Stieg Larsson (15 August 1954 - 9 November 2004) was a Swedish journalist and writer. He was born in Skelleftehamn outside Skellefteå, Sweden as Karl Stig-Erland Larsson. He is notable for his authorship of the Millennium series of crime novels which are being published posthumously.
During 2008, he was the second-best selling author in the world, behind Afghani-American author Khaled Hosseini.

Life and career

Activist and journalist
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. He also wrote regularly for the weekly Internationalen. As a science fiction fan, he was co-editor or editor of several fanzines, including Sfären, Fijagh! and others; in 1978-1979 he was president of the largest Swedish science fiction fan club, Skandinavisk Förening för Science Fiction (SFSF). He worked as a graphic designer at the largest Swedish news agency, Tidningarnas Telegrambyrå (TT) between 1977 and 1999.
Larsson's political convictions, as well as his journalistic experiences, led him to found the Swedish Expo Foundation, similar to the British Searchlight Foundation, established to "expose racist and totalitarian organisations and tendencies"; he also became the editor of the foundation's magazine Expo. Larsson quickly became instrumental in documenting and exposing Swedish extreme right and racist organisations; he was an influential debater, lecturer and self-proclaimed "expert" on the subject, allegedly living for years under death threats from his political enemies.

Death
Larsson died in Stockholm at the age of 50 of a massive myocardial infarction. Rumours that his death was in some way suspicious, because of death threats received as editor of Expo, have been denied.
In May 2008 it was announced that Larsson's 1977 will, found soon after his death, declared his wish to leave his assets to 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. His long term partner Eva Gabrielsson, who found his will, has no legal right to the inheritance, sparking controversy and exposing what many media considered a flaw in Swedish inheritance legislation. At the 2009 Galaxy Book Awards, Larsson won the award for The Books Direct Crime Thriller of The Year, for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
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