David Lagercrantz (born 4 September 1962) is a Swedish journalist and author, internationally known as the author of I am Zlatan Ibrahimović, The Girl in the Spider’s Web and The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye, the latter two being the fourth and fifth installments respectively in the Millennium series originated by Stieg Larsson.
School period
College/University
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University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
David Lagercrantz obtained a degree from the Gothenburg School of Journalism, the University of Gothenburg.
Career
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2015
Best-selling Swedish author and journalist David Lagercrantz, who has written the next instalment in the ‘Millennium’ series ( AFP ).
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2017
Best-selling Swedish author and journalist David Lagercrantz.
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2017
Best-selling Swedish author and journalist David Lagercrantz.
Gallery of David Lagercrantz
Best-selling Swedish author and journalist David Lagercrantz.
Gallery of David Lagercrantz
Best-selling Swedish author and journalist David Lagercrantz.
Gallery of David Lagercrantz
Best-selling Swedish author and journalist David Lagercrantz.
Gallery of David Lagercrantz
Best-selling Swedish author and journalist David Lagercrantz.
Gallery of David Lagercrantz
Best-selling Swedish author and journalist David Lagercrantz.
Achievements
2012
Best-selling Swedish author and journalist David Lagercrantz.
Membership
Awards
E-book prize
2018
David Lagercrantz was awarded the great E-book prize after his novel was selected most captivating book of the year in Sweden.
David Lagercrantz obtained a degree from the Gothenburg School of Journalism, the University of Gothenburg.
Connections
Wife: Anne Lagercrantz
2017
David and Anne Lagercrantz attend the award ceremony for the prestigious Polar Music Prize in Stockholm.
Father: Olof Gustaf Hugo Lagercrantz
Olof Gustaf Hugo Lagercrantz (10 March 1911 – 23 July 2002) was a Swedish writer, critic, literary scholar (PhD 1951) and publicist (editor-in-chief of Dagens Nyheter 1960-1975).
ancestor: Erik Geijer
Sister: Marika Karin Louise Lagercrantz
Marika Karin Louise Lagercrantz (born 12 July 1954) is a Swedish actress. Since 2011, she has been Sweden's cultural attaché at the Berlin embassy in Germany.
(Several English nationals have defected to the USSR, whil...)
Several English nationals have defected to the USSR, while a witch hunt for homosexuals rages across Britain. In these circumstances, no one is surprised when a mathematician by the name of Alan Turing is found dead in his home in the sleepy suburb of Wilmslow. It is widely assumed that he has committed suicide, unable to cope with the humiliation of a criminal conviction for gross indecency. But a young detective constable, Leonard Corell, who once dreamed of a career in higher mathematics, suspects greater forces are involved. In the face of opposition from his superiors, he begins to assemble the pieces of a puzzle that lead him to one of the most closely guarded secrets of the war: the Bletchley Park operation to crack the Nazis’ Enigma encryption code.
(A genius hacker who has always been an outsider. A journa...)
A genius hacker who has always been an outsider. A journalist with a penchant for danger. She is Lisbeth Salander, the girl with the dragon tattoo. He is Mikael Blomkvist, crusading editor of Millennium. One night, Blomkvist receives a call from a source who claims to have been given information vital to the United States by a young female hacker. Blomkvist, always on the lookout for a story, reaches out to Salander for help. She, as usual, has plans of her own. Together they are drawn into a ruthless underworld of spies, cybercriminals, and government operatives - some willing to kill to protect their secrets.
(This is a series reading order list for all of David Lage...)
This is a series reading order list for all of David Lagercrantz‘s books. Each list includes: the book title, the publication date and links to Amazon to help you find the books.
Lisbeth Salander - obstinate outsider, volatile seeker of justice for herself and others - seizes on a chance to unearth her mysterious past once and for all. And she will let nothing stop her - not the Islamists she enrages by rescuing a young woman from their brutality; not the prison gang leader who passes a death sentence on her; not the deadly reach of her long-lost twin sister, Camilla; and not the people who will do anything to keep buried knowledge of a sinister pseudoscientific experiment known only as The Registry.
(The sixth Lisbeth Salander story - the crime-fiction phen...)
The sixth Lisbeth Salander story - the crime-fiction phenomenon that has sold more than 90 million copies worldwide. Book four in the series, The Girl in the Spider's Web, starring Claire Foy, is now a major film from Sony Pictures.
David Lagercrantz is a Swedish journalist and best-selling novelist. He is best known as an author of Zlatan Ibrahimović's biography "I am Zlatan Ibrahimović", as well as for the sequel to Stieg Larsson's bestselling Millennium trilogy about troubled but fierce computer hacker Lisbeth Salander and journalist Mikael Blomkvist, which went on sale in 25 countries today.
Background
Ethnicity:
The family of Lagercrantz is descended from a junior line of the untitled Swedish noble family Lagercrantz and is as such member of the Swedish House of Nobility.
David Lagercrantz was born on September 4, 1962, in Solna, Sweden. He is the son of Swedish publisher and literary scholar Olof Lagercrantz and his wife Martina Ruin, daughter of philosopher Hans Ruin. Through his paternal grandmother and the Swedish line of the clan Hamilton he is a descendant of the 19th century historian and poet Erik Gustaf Geijer. David grew up in Solna and Drottningholm, just outside of Stockholm.
Education
After studying philosophy and religion, David Lagercrantz obtained a degree from the Gothenburg School of Journalism.
After obtaining a degree from the Gothenburg School of Journalism, David did a four-year stint as crime reporter at Expressen, at the time the largest newspaper in Scandinavia, where he covered the most prominent murder cases in Sweden during the late 80s and early 90s.
He made his book debut in 1997 with the story of Göran Kropp, a Swedish adventurer who summited Mount Everest with neither oxygen nor Sherpas, barely one week after one of the worst disasters ever on the mountain. The book was a success in Sweden and abroad and paved the way for a nonfiction writing career.
2009 saw David’s breakthrough as a novelist with Fall of Man in Wilmslow, a historical novel about the English mathematician Alan Turing. The book was published in 18 countries. The biography I am Zlatan, written together with international football star Zlatan Ibrahimovic, was published in 2011. With 500 000 hardcover copies sold in less than two months, it is the fastest selling book in Sweden to date. I am Zlatan had a massive impact on the democratization of reading, having introduced thousands of youths to the world of books. I am Zlatan was published in more than 30 languages and has sold millions of copies worldwide. The book is the first of its kind to be shortlisted for the August Prize and is now considered a modern classic. In December 2013, David Lagercrantz reached an agreement with Norstedts and Moggliden regarding a set of sequels to Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy, the global blockbuster phenomenon featuring hacker Lisbeth Salander and reporter Mikael Blomkvist.
David’s first book in the series, The Girl in the Spider’s Web, published in the fall of 2015 in a coordinated worldwide launch, immediately reached number 1 in the US, UK, France, Germany and Spain, and was roundly praised in the New York Times, Guardian, USA Today, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Times, Der Spiegel and Le Monde.
Sony Columbia Pictures purchased the film rights and shooting began in January 2018, directed by Fede Alvarez and starring Claire Foy – celebrated for her role as Queen Elizabeth II in The Crown – as Lisbeth Salander. The film is slated for release in November 2018. David’s second book in the Millenium series, The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye, was published in the fall of 2017 to great media fanfare, soaring into to the bestselling charts across the globe. It was the most sold book in Sweden in 2017.
By the Fall of 2019 The Girl Who Lived Twice will be released world wide. That book, the third by David Lagercrantz, will mark the end of the Millennium-era for David Lagercrantz.
David Lagercrantz lives in Södermalm in Stockholm.
Lagercrantz`s best-selling sports biography I am Zlatan Ibrahimović was published in 2011. It became one of the most successful books in Sweden in modern times. The biography was nominated for the prestigious August Prize in 2012, as well as shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award. To date, the book has been published in over 30 languages around the world and been sold in millions of copies.
In 2012 David Lagercrantz was shortlisted for the August Prize for I am Zlatan, and in 2013 for the William Hill Sport Book of the Year for I am Zlatan. Esquire named his book, The Girl in the Spider’s Web, the best crime novel of 2015. In 2016 he was shortlisted for the Petrona Award for The Girl in the Spider’s Web. He was appointed a new honorary member of The Reading Foundation in Sweden. Lagercrantz was shortlisted for the Crime Feast Award in the United Kingdom. He was awarded the great E-book prize after his novel was selected most captivating book of the year in Sweden. In 2018 David was a winner of the audiobook of the year in United States.
(A gripping new thriller from the bestselling author of TH...)
Views
Quotations:
"I am best as a writer when I collide myself with another world. It makes me better as a writer. I said from the start I had to be trustful of the Millennium universe. It was not going to be a Stieg Larsson book, but my interpretation of his iconic characters and universe. I wrote about Alan Turing, the great mathematician and code-breaker. He was an absolutely different person, certainly more brilliant than I ever will be."
Membership
David Lagercrantz is a board member and financial contributor to Swedish P.E.N (the worldwide association of writers, founded in London in 1921). He also supports Grävfonden, a foundation that trains reporters in investigative journalism, and Läsrörelsen, an organization that promotes literature and language development for youths.
Personality
Quotes from others about the person
“He (Lagercrantz) has carried it out with intelligence and vigour.” - The Times.
“Lagercrantz has written an excellent crime novel. The girl in the spider´s web is a very elegant constructed and an intellectual game.” - Stern.
“Lagercrantz has more than met the challenge. Larsson’s brainchildren are in good hands and may have even come up a bit in the world.” - Wall Street Journal.
“Lagercrantz’s continuation, while never formulaic, is a cleaner and tighter read than the originals.” - The Guardian.
“Lagercrantz is one of the best in the genre keeps building on the foundation laid by Stieg Larsson, with excellent result” - Svenska Dagbladet.
Connections
David is married to Anne Lagercrantz, who is a popular journalist and reporter from Sweden.
In December 2013, the Swedish publishing company Norstedts announced that Lagercrantz had been contracted to write the fourth novel in the Millennium series of crime novels, originally by Stieg Larsson (1954–2004).
