The "Millennium" saga will continue with three new opus

Europe 1 with AFP 6:47 p.m., November 22, 2021

The famous Swedish crime series "Millennium" created by Stieg Larsson, which now has six books, will continue with three new albums, Swedish publishing house Polaris announced on Monday.

A third trilogy

After Larsson's original trilogy, which became a worldwide publishing phenomenon fifteen years ago, a second thriller trilogy was signed by Swedish author David Lagercrantz between 2015 and 2019. The name of the author who will ensure the continuation of the adventures of the journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the hacker Lisbeth Salander is not yet known. “Carrying further this deeply loved story is not only exhilarating and honoring, but also demanding,” said Jonas Axelsson, publishing director at Polaris, in a statement.

The publisher, who bought the rights to the Moggliden company in charge of the intellectual property of Stieg Larsson, is delighted to give "a new sequel" to "the greatest literary success in Swedish history".

An investigative journalist specializing in far-right movements, Larsson died of a heart attack in 2004 just after rendering the first three manuscripts.

It will therefore never have known the fortune or the success of the saga, which has passed in total according to a last score to more than 100 million copies worldwide in more than 50 countries.

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Controversial publications

After the posthumous publication of the first three volumes ("Men who did not like women" (2005), "The girl who dreamed of a can of gasoline and a match" (2006), "The queen in the palace of air currents "(2007), bestselling author David Lagercrantz had taken up the torch amid controversy. The decision was made with the agreement of Larsson's brother and father, but the opposition by author's companion Eva Gabrielsson.

Excluded from her inheritance because they were not married, which had already earned her to be deprived of important copyright, she had not been successful.

The second trilogy - "What Doesn't Kill Me" in 2015, "The Girl Who Killed" two years later and "The Girl Who Must Die" in 2019 - had been published by Swedish publisher Nordstedts.

David Lagercrantz, also known for having co-signed the biography of the Swedish footballer with Zlatan Ibrahimovic, had let it be known that he did not intend to continue the series.