Category Archives: Stieg Larsson

>Stieg Larsson Day

>American covers 1 + 2, and the first French cover (weird, isn´t it?) Three Danish covers – conspiracy & playing hide-and-seek, perhaps. Three Swedish covers. Focus on Lisbeth Salander, rather sinister colours. And finally, the British ones which imitate the … Continue reading

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>Stieg Larsson, The Girl who Kicked the Hornet´s Nest (2009)

>The third and final volume of this Swedish trilogy begins where volume two stopped with Lisbeth Salander, the girl who nearly kicked the bucket. Are you ready for several hundred pages of excitement? Again, Larsson does not try to hide … Continue reading

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>Salander Sunday

>Film review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Swedish DVD with Scandinavian subtitles. An elderly man receives a mysterious parcel – a white flower in a frame. Immediately afterwards we meet Mikael Blomkvist in court where he receives his sentence … Continue reading

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>Meet Kalle Blomkvist aka Bill Bergson

> Left: photo of the boy who played Kalle Blomkvist.Right: photo of Stieg Larsson. The other day my daughter came across two volumes of Astrid Lindgren´s Kalle Blomkvist series in an antiquarian bookshop (both published by Gyldendal in 1989).Fortunately she … Continue reading

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>Lisbeth Salander alias Pippi Langstrømpe

>Først et kort citat fra en email fra Stieg Larsson til hans svenske forlægger (fundet hos “Modtryk”, den danske forlægger): “Jeg har forsøgt at gå mod strømmen i forhold til sædvanlige krimier. Jeg ville skabe hovedpersoner, som adskiller sig dramatisk … Continue reading

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>Stieg Larsson (Mænd der hader ..) & Kalle Blomkvist

>Da markedet på det nærmeste er oversvømmet af Stieg Larsson-anmeldelser allerede, har jeg valgt i stedet at kigge nærmere på de to hovedpersoner, i første omgang journalisten Mikael Blomkvist, og senere Lisbeth Salander, der er ansat som efterforsker i sikkerhedsfirmaet … Continue reading

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