A year later, in 2018, her first novel, Jag for ner till bror, was published, available in English as My Brother. “I decided a few years ago that I had to do something if I didn’t want to work with wood for the rest of my life – and I didn’t.” So once her children were grown up she decided to pursue creative writing, attending a course at Lund University. Smirnoff worked as a journalist before quitting her job to buy a wood factory, which she still owns. View image in fullscreen The Girl in the Eagle’s Talons by Karin Smirnoff. Though she toyed with the idea of giving her a child or a dog, she eventually settled on the genius niece, an important character who will feature in the eighth and ninth books, which Smirnoff has also been commissioned to write. Svala’s mother has gone missing and Salander is called on by social services to look after the 13-year-old – about which the asocial Salander’s first thought is: “Fucking hell!” Smirnoff believes Salander was “like a teenager” in the first six books, and that it was “time for her to grow up”. In Smirnoff’s continuation, we meet a new character: Svala, Salander’s code-cracking niece. “Since Stieg Larsson’s family, who inherited the rights, have approved, I don’t have a problem.” “I haven’t heard anything from Eva of what she thinks today about the continuation of the series,” says Smirnoff. In 2015, Gabrielsson said choosing Lagercrantz as the new Millennium author was “totally idiotic”, adding that she “wouldn’t have continued Stieg’s work” herself.Īlthough Smirnoff has a “good relationship” with Larsson’s family (they sometimes go for dinner), she has not met Gabrielsson. His long-term partner, Eva Gabrielsson, had no legal right to inheritance because the pair were not married and Larsson died intestate. Upon his death, Larsson’s estate was divided between his father Erland and brother Joakim. View image in fullscreen Dehumanising violence … Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. ![]() This is something you can’t do in real life, she explains, but you can do in literature. ![]() “Because some things you can’t understand as a man.” Yet the writer says she doesn’t like “eternal” victims – she endeavours to transform them into predators, or “at least turn the situation around”. “I’m more angry about certain things than men can be,” says Smirnoff. Women are subjected to dehumanising violence from the first few pages. Sexual violence permeated Larsson’s novels – indeed, the Swedish title for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is Men Who Hate Women – and the same can be said for Smirnoff’s latest. ![]() Her book, The Girl in the Eagle’s Talons, translated into English by Sarah Death, inherits Larsson’s beloved main characters: the leather-clad Salander and Mikael Blomkvist, a womanising reporter who works for Millennium, an investigative magazine that – to his dismay – has turned into a podcast. Journalist David Lagercrantz was commissioned to continue the series, writing three further instalments before Smirnoff took up the mantle.
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