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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
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 ...
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 .
A review by The Washington Post says The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye "intensifies the mythic elements of Larsson's vision" and is entertaining. [3] However, The Guardian says that "There is a sluggishness to the plotting and much of the tension relies on orchestrated interruptions and delays, which irritate". [2]
Olof Gustaf Hugo Lagercrantz (10 March 1911 – 23 July 2002) was a Swedish writer, critic, literary scholar (PhD 1951) and publicist (editor-in-chief of Dagens Nyheter 1960–1975). [ 1 ] Life and career
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.
Otto Lagercrantz was born at Näsby in Jönköping County, Sweden. Lagercrantz graduated from high school in Uppsala in 1887. He then studied at Uppsala University, earning his bachelor's degree in 1890 and his licentiate degree in 1895. He completed his Ph.D. in 1898 with a dissertation titled Zur griechischen Lautgeschichte.
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