In "There Are Things I Want You to Know" about Stieg Larsson and Me, Eva Gabrielsson accepts the daunting challenge of telling the story of their shared life steeped in love and sharpened in the struggle for justice and human rights. Her name is Eva Gabrielsson.Įva Gabrielsson and Stieg Larsson shared everything, starting when they were both eighteen until his untimely death thirty-two years later at the age of fifty.
Only one person in the world knows that story well enough to tell it with authority. The issue is not money, she says, but her ability to guard her partner's artistic integrity.Here is the real inside story - not the one about the Stieg Larsson phenomenon, but rather the love story of a man and a woman whose lives came to be guided by politics and love, coffee and activism, writing and friendship. Gabrielsson continues to wield her most powerful, if dubiously ethical, weapon: She refuses to help finish the next books in the series, or to answer where Larsson's missing computer - with the unfinished manuscripts - is, until she's given control of his literary estate.
Family and partner fought ugly battles in the European media.
She was a widow emotionally, but legally, she was a concubine - without any inheritance rights. Unfortunately, the slim volume reads more like a court defense and less, as one might hope, as a remembrance of a writer whom millions of readers have come to love but know precious little about.īereaved and depressed after Larsson's death, Gabrielsson found herself in an epic, public war with Larsson's father and brother over the writer's increasingly valuable estate. In "'There Are Things I Want You to Know' About Stieg Larsson and Me," Gabrielsson tells her story.
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