The books
The Stieg Larsson – Millennium tour is a walking tour based on the trilogy of books The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest.
The tour
You start the 2 hour tour on the island of Södermalm, at Bellmansgatan 1, the home of the main character, Mikael Blomqvist and you walk your way through key locations in the books; bars, cafés, and of course, past Lisbeth Salander’s apartment.
The hangouts
The tour ends at the Stockholm City Museum where you can check out a Millennium exhibition. If you don’t have time for a drink at Kvarnen or a coffee at Mellqvist on the tour, they are such local favourites, we say go back later and hang out.
The unfinished business …
There is a fourth novel in the series that Larsson did not finish before his sudden death in 2004. His life partner Eva Gabrielsson is in possession of his laptop but does not own the rights to his work as they were not married and he left no will. His family now owns the rights to all remaining material and book outlines (supposedly 7).
Did you know?
Larsson had a tough time getting published. His manuscripts were refused by two Swedish publishers before Norstedts took a chance on him. And he also tried to get published in English with not much luck until finally, a small London publisher, Christopher Maclehose, took the risk. They have never looked back …
There are Swedish language film versions of the three books, and the first Hollywood version premiered in Stockholm in December, 2011 with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
When?
Take the The Stieg Larsson – Millennium tour year round apart from December 24.