Research Catalog

Title

The tattooed girl : the enigma of Stieg Larsson and the secrets behind the most compelling thrillers of our time / Dan Burstein, Arne de Keijzer, and John-Henri Holmberg.

Author

Burstein, Daniel.

Publication

New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2011.

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Additional Authors

• De Keijzer, Arne J.
• Holmberg, John-Henri, 1949-

Description

xxii, 359 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map; 21 cm.

Summary

Reveals the real-life experiences and incidents involving Swedish politics, violence against women, and neo-Nazis that are at the heart of Larsson's work.

Subject

Larsson, Stieg, 1954-2004

Note

• "The unauthorized guide"--Cover.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The author who kicked the hornet's nest -- The profound prescience of Stieg Larsson / Dan Burstein -- The author who played with fire / Christopher Hitchens -- The girl who conquered the world / Laura Miller -- Lisbeth Salander, the Millennium Trilogy and my mother / Jenny McPhee -- The novels you read are not necessarily the novels Stieg Larsson wrote: How have the Millennium novels been edited; The troubled translation from Swedish to English / John-Henri Holmberg -- Stieg's "baby": the past present and future of Expo magazine / an interview with Daniel Poohl -- My colleague, Stieg Larsson / an interview with Mikael Ekman -- "I offered them a shrimp sandwich" / an interview with Robert Aschberg -- Exposing the extreme right / an interview with Anna-Lena Lodenius -- Eva Gabrielsson on the record, a compilation -- In her own words: Eva Gabrielsson tells her story / Paul De Angelis -- Steig Larsson and science fiction: Stieg in fandom: the life and times of a trufan; Reading (and sometimes writing) science fiction / John-Henri Holmberg -- The man who inhaled crime fiction / John-Henri Holmberg -- The fatal attraction of Nordic noir -- Inspector Norse from The Economist -- IKEA noir / Brooks Riley -- The Scandinavian invasion / Jordan Foster --

ISBN

• 9780312610562 (pbk.)
• 0312610564 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2011008086

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library