Fourth Stieg Larsson novel rumours dismissed

Stieg Larsson and Eva Gabrielsson were together for 32 years

Claims that Swedish author Stieg Larsson wrote a fourth novel are wide of the mark, his partner has revealed.

The Millennium trilogy writer died before books including The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo were published.
Eva Gabrielsson told BBC Radio 4's Woman Hour that there was "not much truth" in reports that he left another novel on a laptop.
She said while he had written some new pages, there was not enough to shape another novel.
"There's the beginning of a fourth novel," she explained.
"I would estimate it to be about 200 pages, given what I saw in late August during our last vacation, and given what I knew of Stieg's workload in his last two months."
The trilogy has sold 27m copies, and reports of a potential fourth book in the series had excited fans.
But Gabrielsson said: "It probably doesn't hang together. Stieg was a spontaneous writer, he could write scenes and not knit them together until later on - he just liked the scene. You can't call it a novel."
Larsson died of a heart attack aged 50 in 2004. Despite being together for 32 years, Gabrielsson was not entitled to anything from his estate under Swedish law, as they were not married and there was no valid will.
She has been locked in a legal battle for a number of years with his father and brother, who inherited Larsson's estate.

But she explained why she felt a right to have control over his literacy legacy.

"Lots of the thoughts and ideas that went into Millennium weren't Stieg's but were mine. So I do have a grip on what's in there," she said.
"Some things are purely mine in that book, some things are his and some things are ideas and things we developed together.
"The descriptions of Stockholm, the locations, that's taken straight from a manuscript I was working on."She said there were many more examples, but that was one she could substantiate in writing..

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