Stieg Larsson's Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trilogy has been incredibly hot. Over 50 million copies have been sold, movies have been made in Sweden and will be made in America. When Larsson died in 2004, a dispute erupted between Larsson's family and his partner of 30 years, Eva Gabrielsson, over the rightful beneficiary of Larsson's estate and proceeds. Since Larsson and Gabrielsson were not legally married, the money has been given to his family, although she was recently awarded a $2.7 million settlement. Gabrielsson claims that money is not the issue, that she is more concerned with the changes that have been made to the original novel in translations and the movies. The rumor has been that Larsson started a fourth novel in the series but did not finish it before his death. Gabrielsson just published her own memoir in Europe in which she says she plans to finish the fourth novel. But, she will only finish the work when she is given "undisputed rights" to Larsson's estate.
Before Larsson wrote his novels, he was a journalist and one of the founders of the anti-fascist magazine Expo. A former colleague of Larsson's, Kurdo Baksi, recently published a book, Stieg Larsson: Our Days in Stockholm: A Memoir of a Friendship. Baski contends that as a reporter Larsson used to rig the facts and his work needed extensive editing. Gabrielsson claims that the work is slanderous and should be withdrawn.
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