Twenty years ago today, on November 9th, 2004, Swedish crime novelist, journalist, and political activist Stieg Larsson died.
Best known for the trilogy The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, he died from heart failure at the age of 50.
He died from climbing the stairs to his office in Stockholm and was rushed to hospital but could not be revived.
Although his Millenium Trilogy would later become internationally acclaimed, he did not live to see them published or their success. The manuscripts were submitted to his publisher a short while before his death and the first book was published posthumously in 2005.
Larsson’s sudden, unexpected passing led to a complicated legal battle between his long-term partner and his family as his will was unwitnessed, hence invalid.
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