Stieg Larsson

Stieg Larsson was a Swedish journalist and author, best known for writing the Millennium Trilogy of crime novels which includes The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. He died in 2004, before the books were published.

Prior to his sudden death of a heart attack in November 2004, Stieg Larsson finished three detective novels in his Millenium series. Before his career as a writer, Stieg Larsson was mostly known for his struggle against racism and right-wing extremism. In the middle of the 1980s he helped start the anti-violence project «Stop the Racism». This was followed by the founding of the Expo foundation in 1995. In 1999 he was appointed the chief editor of Expo, a magazine published by the organization.