The legacy
Millennium trilogy
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
The Girl Who Played with Fire
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest
The 4th Book
Millennium Stockholm Map
Maps of Hedeby
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Controversy surrounding the legacy
Stieg Larsson spent 32 years of his life with the architect Eva Gabrielsson. However, the never married, maybe due to Stieg's dangerous work at the Expo-foundation. They did not have any children, and Stieg left no written will, so according to Swedish law, Stieg's estate was inherited by his father and brother. This sparked a dispute between Eva Gabrielsson and Stieg's relatives. She claims that they "were never a part of our lives" and that they are not the right persons handling Stieg's estate.
A fact complicating the matter is that Eva has the laptop with the partly finished script for the fourth book in the Millenium series. And she will not publish the script unless she is given the full rights to manage the novels in the Millenium series, the novels which she and Stieg worked with together. However, Stieg's father and brother has not been willing to meet this amend, and this has resulted in a stalemate which has lasted the five years since Stieg's death.
The most recent event took place when Stieg's father and brother in an interview with a newspaper offered Eva a final settlement of € 2 million. She rejected the offer, saying that it is not the money she is after, but the legal rights to administrate the literary property of Stieg.
So the stalemate continues, and the final words have not been said.
Everyone complaining about the family are missing the point. They maybe a bunch of greedy hobos, but regardless, until the law in Sweden catches up to the rest of the modern world where defacto status does actually count, there will be no continuation of the series. Time for change Sweden. Consider the more imprtant situation where the people invloved include young children and a first wife may dominate entitlement. Time to press for change
- Hubi, 1 February 2012
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I just finished reading the three books within 2 and a half weeks and they were brilliant! I think that it is deplorable that his father and brother should have not declaired Eva as Steig's wife after she spent 32 years working and living with him. They have no right to his lifes work and are depriving the world of his last book! Greed is such an ugly thing but the world is round and what goes around, comes around! Eva, I am sorry for your loss and I am of the feeling that the Swedish government should look at the length of time the two of you lived together and amend their laws to recognize long term partners. 32 years living together is a long term commitment that now day's most marriages don't to arrive at!
- Laura Maldonado, 28 January 2012, 28 January 2012
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Relatives,sometimes do things just to be spiteful,surely,Eva finishing the next book could not do any harm to them or to Steig's trilogy,only enhance it,I feel.We all look forward to this next episode,so I hope they can come to their senses and allow it to be written by Eva,I will look forward to that.It really should remind everyone,they must do a will,no matter how old you are.Good luck Eva.Cheers
- Lynn Meyerts, 28 January 2012
Sorry,My name is Lynn Meyers,(a typing era.)
- Lynn Meyers, 28 January 2012
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The 4th book just has to be published!! I just finished the 3rd book and definitely want more!!
deb
- deb baker, 28 January 2012
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I have just finished all three books, and am now having withdrawal symptoms! If Eva worked with Stieg on the books and has the fourth partly finished, I think that she should continue the series. After 32 years with her partner, she knows better than anyone what he had planned for the future publications. Go for it, Eva, and put us all our of our misery. Don't let two petty, money-grubbing men stand in your way. Lisbeth wouldn't! Good Luck.
- Niki, 27 January 2012
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If indeed the author had planned a ten book series and Eva knows enough of Steig's thought processes, she could conspire with another writer to finish the series, it would be an interesting endeavor.
- Ana, 25 January 2012
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Just finished reading Girl With the Dragon Tattoo & have already started Girl Who Played With Fire. Great books, I have the third one on my kindle to start as soon as I finish this one...hate to think they will come to an end. Eva needs to continue her fight. I hope she wins!
- Emilie, 22 January 2012
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I hope she get's the rights, good for her for holding her own.
- Lindsay, 19 January 2012
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I am glad she is holding her own. She was part of the books and lived with him for 30 some years she should get everything. She was more to Stieg then his own flesh and blood!!!
I can't wait to read the next book but not until she gets what is fair.
- cheryl Minnesota, 19 January 2012
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