Larsson stieg biography of michael blomkvist

Created by Stieg Larsson

&#;People always have secrets. It&#;s just a matter of finding out what they are.&#;
&#; The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Journalist MIKAEL BLOMKVIST and computer hackerLISBETH SALANDER are the mismatched detective duo who appear in a series of internationally acclaimed, posthumously published thrillers by Swedish author Stieg Larsson. The three books are known as the &#;Millennium Trilogy,&#; after the magazine Blomkvist works for.

When we first meet Mikael in &#;s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, he&#;s a middle-aged financial reporter for a left-wing magazine, Millkennium, whose career has gone straight into the dumpster, thanks to a conviction for libelling a high-flying Swedish tycoon and a pending jail sentence.

But another powerful but aging Swedish businessman offers him a way out &#; if Mikael agrees to look into a seriously cold case involving the disappearance of a teen heiress, his brother&#;s granddaughter, almost forty years ago. What can a potential jailbird out to clear his name and reputation do but jump at the chance?

With the unexpected help of Lisbeth, the tattooed girl of the title, a troubled young investigato

Stieg Larsson’s Stockholm

Lola Akinmade Åkerström

Features correspondent

Walk in the footsteps of the lead characters from the best-selling Millennium trilogy, and take in the beauty of the Swedish capital from their point of view.

With more than 60 million copies of the bestselling trilogy Millennium sold worldwide, late author Stieg Larsson has presented a different side of Stockholm to the world. His lead fictional characters – journalist Mikael Blomkvist and hacker-extraordinaire Lisbeth Salander – show the reader a grittier, more contemporary face of the capital through tales of espionage, white collar crime and other seedy activities . Visitors to the city and Millennium enthusiasts alike can now walk in the footsteps of Larsson’s characters and take in Stockholm’s beauty from their point of view.

Larsson’s home was in Söder, which today is an eclectic mix of wealthy, religious and working class residents. Until his death from a heart attack in , Larsson was editor-in-chief of Expo, a Söder-based anti-racist magazine on which the fictional Millennium magazine in his books is loosely based. Larsson’s protagonists and “good guys” all live and operate fro

The Girl Who Deserves To Escape Her Author

Of all the unlikely triumphs of Lisbeth Salander, the most gratifying is her victory over Stieg Larsson. Salander, a combination of Lara Croft, Ayn Rand, and Catherine MacKinnon, is the hero and driving force of Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy— The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played With Fire, and the final volume, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest. Over the course of the trilogy, she faces down corrupt policemen, sadomasochistic lawyers, corrupt businessmen, organized crime bosses, corrupt bureaucrats, Nazi sympathizers, corrupt doctors, lazy journalists, and murderous Aryan giants with superhuman strength who are impervious to pain. And yet she still must overcome sentences like these: “She opened her eyes to two narrow slits and stared at him for many long seconds. Her eyes were unfocused. Then he heard her mutter in such a low voice that he could only with difficulty catch the words.”

OK, so maybe it loses a little in the translation, though seconds last just as long in Swedish as they do in English, and it’s hard to stare unfocused at someone in any language. The sentence above comes from the final page of th

Character Analysis

Blomkvist is the reluctant detective of the piece. He's about 42 years old and, unlike young Salander, he hasn't come to terms with his inner investigator. Blomkvist is managing editor of Millennium magazine and, first and foremost, a financial journalist. He's published two books in his field when the novel opens, and has published a third, The Mafia Banker, at the end.

Millennium magazine and Blomkvist himself are dedicated to exposing corrupt financiers, and taking to task corrupt financial journalists who glorify the rich swindlers. The Mafia Banker is about Hans-Erik Wennerstr&#;m, the corrupt financier we never meet.

Yes, some readers stifle the yawns getting through Chapter 1 of the novel, where Blomkvist flashes back on the conversation that leads to his pre-Salander investigation of Wennerstr&#;m. As important as his financial journalist work is, Blomkvist will have to venture from it, at least temporarily, if he wants to be a literary hero.

And venture he does, though almost against his will. The disgrace over the Wennerstr&#;m affair leaves Blomkvist vulnerable and opens him to new experiences

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