The “Millennium” saga is becoming to literature what “Star Wars” is to cinema.

Namely an original work which continues to be declined in trilogies.

The detective story series from Sweden is currently six books.

This Monday, the Swedish publishing house Polaris announces the upcoming publication of three new plots.

The original triology was written by Stieg Larsson who died in 2004, before these opuses, released posthumously in 2005 and 2007, became a publishing phenomenon.

Over 100 million copies have since been sold around the world, including several million in France where the novels are published by Actes Sud.

A second trilogy of thrillers was then signed by David Lagercrantz between 2015 and 2019.

A feather to find

“Carrying further this deeply loved story is not only exhilarating and honoring, but also demanding,” said Jonas Axelsson, Publishing Director, 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, via this third trilogy, "a new sequel" to "the greatest literary success in the history of Sweden ".

The name of the author or the author who will ensure the continuation of the adventures of the journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the hacker Lisbeth Salander is not yet known.

When David Lagercrantz took over six years ago, the announcement sparked controversy.

The decision had been taken with the agreement of Larsson's brother and father, but the opposition of 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.

Originally, Stieg Larsson initially planned to write up to ten volumes of Millennium.

At the time of his death, in November 2004, he had written two-thirds of the fourth part - unpublished to date - and written the synopses of three other volumes.

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