Plates

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The man who left too soon – a portrait of Stieg Larsson taken in Stockholm in 2004, the year he died.

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Larsson and his long-term partner, Eva Gabrielsson, relaxing over a cup of coffee in Strängnäs, Sweden.

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At work at TT, the Swedish news agency, in Stockholm in the mid-1990s.

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On a visit to Hong Kong, August 1987.

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Larsson on the Trans-Siberian Railway, July 1987.

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Working as a news graphic illustrator at the TT Feature and Photo desk.

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Larsson, a keen sailor, relaxing below deck on his boat ‘Josephine’.

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Sailing the Stockholm archipelago, with Eva Gabrielsson.

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Swedish actress Noomi Rapace, who plays Lisbeth Salander, and Danish director Niels Arden Oplev, at the Paris premiere of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo in May 2009.

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Guests wait in line outside the Sergel cinema in Stockholm, 14 September 2009, for the gala premiere of The Girl Who Played with Fire, the second film in the Millennium Trilogy.

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Eva Gabrielsson, Larsson’s partner, pictured holding a copy of the Swedish edition of Män som hatar kvinnor (‘Men Who Hate Women’), which was published in English as The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

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Michael Nyqvist as Mikael Blomkvist.© Alliance Films

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The poster for the last of the three films.© Alliance Films