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Stieg Larsson was born in Skelleftehamn, Västerbottens län, Sweden, the son of Erland Larsson (born 1935) and his wife Vivianne, née Boström (1937–1991). [4] His father and maternal grandfather worked in the Rönnskärsverken smelting plant in Skelleftehamn. Suffering from arsenic poisoning, his father resigned from his job, and the ...
In an interview with the author’s father, Erland Larsson, he asserts that “Stieg was never a communist,” a statement that is hard to believe, considering that a copy of a will written by his son but never officially witnessed would have left everything to his branch of the Communist Workers’ League.
Aug 11, 2024 · Following a mandatory 14-month stint in the Swedish army, Larsson participated in rallies against the Vietnam War and became involved in a revolutionary communist group, through which he briefly edited a Trotskyist journal.
Mar 11, 2011 · … From 1968, when he was only 14, Stig Larsson [he would later change the spelling of his first name] was politically committed. He wore a purple badge with a gold star, the symbol of the...
Jan 5, 2011 · His grandfather Severin was also a source of constant fascination: He had opposed the Nazis during World War II and was a lifelong communist; Stieg would later publish political tracts in ...
Jan 2, 2011 · Larsson, who was born in a village in the north of Sweden in 1954, was an ardent leftist all his life. In the nineteen-eighties, because of immigration, Sweden, like other European countries,...
May 20, 2010 · Joakim Larsson, who worked for 22 years as an accountant at Ernst & Young before quitting to look after Stieg’s estate, looks a little like his brother and has some of the same conciliatory ...
