The Girl Who Lived Twice
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 9780451494344
First entered: 31st, Aug 2019
Number of weeks: 6
Book Summary
Authors
Name: David Lagercrantz
Born: Sep, 1962
About the author:
Lagercrantz studied philosophy and religion at university and subsequently graduated from the Gothenburg journalism school. His first journalist job was at the in-house magazine of carmaker Volvo. He later moved to the daily tabloid newspaper Expressen and worked until 1993 as a crime reporter, covering some of the major criminal cases of the late 80s and early 90s in Sweden, notably the Åmsele murders. His first book was released in 1997, a biography of the Swedish adventurer and mountaineer Göran Kropp (1966 - 2002).
Name: Stieg Larsson
Hometown: Skelleftehamn
Born: Aug, 1954
Died: Nov, 2004
About the author:
Stieg Larsson (born as Karl Stig-Erland Larsson) was a Swedish journalist and writer who passed away in 2004.
As a journalist and editor of the magazine
Expo
, Larsson was active in documenting and exposing Swedish extreme right and racist organisations. When he died at the age of 50, Larsson left three unpublished thrillers and unfinished manuscripts for more. The first three books (
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
,
The Girl Who Played With Fire
and
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest
) have since been printed as the
Millenium
series. These books are all bestsellers in Sweden and in several other countries, including the United States and Canada.
