New novel for 'Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' series

Swedish writer David Lagercrantz will pen a fourth installment in the 'Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' series originally written by Stieg Larsson, according to Larsson's publisher. It will be released in August 2015.

|
Merrick Morton/Sony, Columbia Pictures/AP
The American film version of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' starred Rooney Mara.

A new book in Stieg Larsson’s “Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” series, written by Swedish author David Lagercrantz, will be released in 2015.

Norstedts Förlag, Larsson’s publisher in Sweden, announced that Lagercrantz will be taking on the job and that the book will be released in August of that year.

“We are proud and excited to now have signed an agreement with David Lagercrantz who, urged by his agent Magdalena Hedlund, has undertaken the challenging task of providing Blomkvist and Salander a second life, in a fourth standalone part of the Millennium series,” Eva Gedin, Norstedts Förlag’s publishing manager, said, according to The Bookseller.

Lagercrantz called the process “insanely fun,” according to The Bookseller.

“It's an amazing world to step into,” he said of Larsson’s novels.

Larsson, the original author of the series, died in 2004 but had reportedly planned to write 10 books in the series. A fourth was begun and his partner, Eva Gabrielsson, told the BBC that Larsson had written “the beginning of a fourth novel” and that she believed he had written about 200 pages. Gabrielsson says she possesses the laptop on which the pages are stored, according to the New York Times. However, she didn’t think the manuscript could be published in its current form.

“It probably doesn't hang together,” she told the BBC. “Stieg was a spontaneous writer, he could write scenes and not knit them together until later on – he just liked the scene. You can't call it a novel.”

After the new novel by Lagercrantz was announced, Gabrielsson told the BBC that Norstedts Förlag had not had seen Larsson’s new novel beginnings and so Lagercrantz’s book would not be based on it.

She believes it is “distasteful to try to make more money” from the series, Gabrielsson said of the project, according to the BBC.

Gabrielsson was not married to Larsson and so, because of Swedish law, she did not receive anything through his estate after his death. His estate became the property of Larsson’s brother and father. She was offered a seat on the company board that is in charge of the author’s books as well as a settlement in 2009 but turned it down. 

All three of Larsson’s “Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” books have become international bestsellers since his death and have been adapted into film twice, once in a Swedish three-part series starring Noomi Rapace and Michael Nyqvist. Hollywood took on the first book in 2011, with the American version starring Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig.

You've read  of  free articles. Subscribe to continue.
Real news can be honest, hopeful, credible, constructive.
What is the Monitor difference? Tackling the tough headlines – with humanity. Listening to sources – with respect. Seeing the story that others are missing by reporting what so often gets overlooked: the values that connect us. That’s Monitor reporting – news that changes how you see the world.

Dear Reader,

About a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”:

“Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.”

If you were to come up with a punchline to a joke about the Monitor, that would probably be it. We’re seen as being global, fair, insightful, and perhaps a bit too earnest. We’re the bran muffin of journalism.

But you know what? We change lives. And I’m going to argue that we change lives precisely because we force open that too-small box that most human beings think they live in.

The Monitor is a peculiar little publication that’s hard for the world to figure out. We’re run by a church, but we’re not only for church members and we’re not about converting people. We’re known as being fair even as the world becomes as polarized as at any time since the newspaper’s founding in 1908.

We have a mission beyond circulation, we want to bridge divides. We’re about kicking down the door of thought everywhere and saying, “You are bigger and more capable than you realize. And we can prove it.”

If you’re looking for bran muffin journalism, you can subscribe to the Monitor for $15. You’ll get the Monitor Weekly magazine, the Monitor Daily email, and unlimited access to CSMonitor.com.

QR Code to New novel for 'Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' series
Read this article in
https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2013/1218/New-novel-for-Girl-with-the-Dragon-Tattoo-series
QR Code to Subscription page
Start your subscription today
https://www.csmonitor.com/subscribe