Stieg Larsson was inspired by Pippi Longstocking when creating Lisbeth Salander in “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.” Larsson imagined an adult Pippi with ADHD and a dysfunctional life. Larsson died in 2004 before seeing his books become bestsellers.
“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” by Stieg Larsson is a successful Swedish crime novel that has become internationally popular. One of the main characters in the book, Lisbeth Salander, was actually inspired by a rather unlikely child character. Stieg Larsson envisioned an adult Pippi Longstocking when creating “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.” Larsson once said he was intrigued by the idea of how child characters would behave as adults. Pippi was one of the characters that Larsson had become attached to so he began to imagine her life as an adult: dysfunctional, with attention deficit disorder and unable to find a place in society. For those who have read the novel, the bond between an adult Pippi Longstocking and Lisbeth Salander may now seem strangely fitting.
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Larsson died of a heart attack in 2004, so sadly he didn’t live to see his books become bestsellers.
Larsson began writing when he was 13 in the cellar of his father’s house.
Larsson met his lifelong love, Eva Gabrielsson, when he was 18 at an anti-Vietnam protest rally.
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