STIEG LARSSON (1954-2004)

Eva Gabrielsson, Stieg’s partner through 30 years:

“When I met Stieg Larsson in 1972 he defined himself as a feminist. This was unusual. He saw the situation of women at an early age and never stopped seeing it. Stieg Larsson’s actions and his views of the world, can mainly be understood from a perspective of women’s rights. However, his concern was all violence against people who are branded ‘wrong’ at some ‘wrong point in time. Sooner or later we might all be affected since we all belong to some minority …  The Millennium crime novel trilogy is a new way of making discrimination and violence against women visible. I am sorry that the illusion of Sweden as a just and equal society happened to be shattered in the process.“

[Source: Speech by Eva Gabrielsson at the Observatorio contra la Violencia Domestica y de Genero, 30 September 2009]