Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy will be coming to a cinema near you.
Swedish broadcaster SVT had initially intended that the films, which they have co-financed, would be aired on television and then released on DVD, but they have been swayed by public enthusiasm for the series to support a theatrical release.
The first book, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, is shortlisted for the Nibbie for Best Crime Thriller. This particular award has perhaps the strongest shortlist, also featuring Martina Cole, C J Sansom, Linwood Barclay, Kate Atkinson and Tom Rob Smith, all of whom have also seen very strong sales in the UK.
Book two, The Girl Who Played with Fire, was released in hardback in February and the third and final part of the series, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, is provisionally scheduled for UK publication at the end of October.
The series has sold over 3 million copies in the author’s native Sweden, a country of 9 million inhabitants, and in 2008 he was the world’s second best-selling author, behind Khaled Hosseini.
Larsson was principally an investigative journalist and exposed right-wing extremism both in Sweden and abroad, before his death from a heart attack at the age of 50. His relatives have recently announced an award in his name, for pioneering journalism.
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