David Lagercrantz, born in 1962, is a journalist and author, living in Stockholm. His first book was published in 1997, a biography of the Swedish adventurer and mountaineer Göran Kropp. In 2000 his biography on the inventor Håkan Lans, A Swedish Genious, was published. His breakthrough as a novelist was Fall of Man in Wilmslow, a fictionalised novel about the British mathematician Alan Turing. In David Lagercrantz’ writing you can often see a pattern: major talents who refuse to follow convention. He has been interested not only in what it takes to stand out from the crowd, but also in the resistance that such creativity inevitably faces.
Books in order of publication in English and Swedish:
Göran Kropp 8000 plus (1997), biography of Göran Kropp
Änglarna i Åmsele (1998), non-fiction, about the Åmsele triple murder case
Ett svenskt geni (2000), biography of Håkan Lans
Stjärnfall (2001), novel
Där gräset aldrig växer mer (2002), novel
Underbarnets gåta (2003), novel
Himmel över Everest (2005), novel
Ett svenskt geni – berättelsen om Håkan Lans och kriget han startade (second revised and expanded edition) (2006)
Fall of Man in Wilmslow (2009), novel
I am Zlatan Ibrahimović (Original title: Jag är Zlatan Ibrahimović, 2011).
The Girl in the Spider’s Web (2015), novel, part four in the Millennium series
The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye (2017), novel, part five in the Millennium series
The Girl Who Lived Twice (August 2019), novel, part six in the Millennium series
Dark Music: A Novel. Knopf. 2022.
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