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The Expo Files: Articles By The Crusading Journalist![]() Stock informationGeneral Fields
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DescriptionNow almost exclusively known as the author of the bestselling Millennium Trilogy, as a professional journalist Stieg Larsson was an untiring crusader for democracy and equality. As a reporter and editor-in-chief on the journal Expo he researched the extreme right both in Sweden and at an international level. Collected here for the first time are essays and articles on right-wing extremism and racism, on violence against women and women's rights, on homophobia and honour killings. Larsson never ceased to fight for and write about his most firmly held principles; it was his commitment to these which gave his best-selling novels their explosive force. Reviews'It's hard not to compare him with Orwell, who comprehended the appeal of fascism, while despising it' Michael Newton, Guardian. 'There are keen insights here into the issues that motivated him, including a chillingly prescient piece about the likelihood of terror killings in the Scandinavian countries' Barry Forshaw, Independent. Author descriptionStieg Larsson was the founder and editor-in-chief of the anti-racist magazine Expo and an acknowledged expert on right-wing extremist organisations. He died in 2004, soon after delivering the text of the novels that make up the Millennium Trilogy. Laurie Thompson is the distinguished translator of the novels of Henning Mankell and Hakan Nesser. |