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In 2000, Lagercrantz published a biography of the inventor Håkan Lans, A Swedish Genius, which was later adapted as a documentary film, Patent 986. Lagercrantz's literary breakthrough was the 2009 novel Syndafall i Wilmslow (the Fall of Man in Wilmslow) about the English mathematician and cryptanalyst Alan Turing. Lagercrantz's first books had ...
Ava de Lagercrantz (1862–1938), Swedish portrait artist; Bengt Lagercrantz (1887–1924), Swedish sport shooter; Bror Lagercrantz (1894–1981), Swedish fencer; David Lagercrantz (born 1962), Swedish journalist and author
The Lagercrantz family is a Swedish noble family, introduced at the Swedish house of nobility in 1682. The oldest known ancestor of the Lagercranz family was Jacob Larsson Gavelius (died 1656), an assessor at the Göta Court of Appeal .
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Ann-Helén Laestadius (born 1971), Sami journalist and children's novelist; Olof Lagercrantz (1911–2002) Pär Lagerkvist (1891–1974) Selma Lagerlöf (1858–1940) Dagmar Lange (Maria Lang) (1914–1991) Viveca Lärn (born 1944) Stieg Larsson (1954–2004) Stig Larsson (born 1955) Anna Maria Lenngren (1754–1817) Oscar Levertin (1862–1906 ...
Although Bosse was a successful professional, she is chiefly remembered as the third wife of Swedish dramatist August Strindberg (1849–1912). [11] Strindberg, an important influence on the development of modern drama, had become nationally known in the 1870s as an angry young socialist muckraker and had risen to fame with his satire on the Swedish establishment, The Red Room (1879). [12]
The Guardian felt that while Lagercrantz’s prose is more serviceable than the peculiarly clodhopping original writing, by this point the main characters have, sadly, become subject to the law of diminishing returns – in particular Salander, who is now just another all-purpose kick-ass heroine.