David Lagerkranz is a well-known Swedish writer and journalist, co-author of the biography of the famous football player Zlatan Ibrahimovic, a descendant of the 19th century poet Geyer, chairman of PEN International, the world writers association.
Biography
David was born in early September 1962 in the family of the rather famous poet Olof Lagerkranets and his wife Martina Ruin. The childhood of the son of a dynasty of writers passed in Stockholm, in the intellectual environment of people involved in creativity and science. Marika, the sister of the future famous journalist, became a famous actress, and then went into politics.
First, David received his education at the university, where he studied philosophy and religion, and then he entered the Gothenburg School of Journalism. David received his first work experience in the regional newspaper Expressen, where he covered the criminal world of Sweden in the late 80s and early 90s. Some of those events formed the basis of his books.
Writing career
The first writing experience for David was the biography of Swede Joran Kropp, a rock climber, adventurer and well-known traveler, which was released in 1997. In 2000, Lagerkranz published a biography of the inventor Hakan Lance, which was soon filmed a documentary.
Then Lagerkranz acted as a co-author of the description of the life of the national sports hero, football player Zlatan Ibrahimovic, having published with him in the fall of 2011 the book “I am Zlatan”, the basis for which was one hundred hours of interviews of the athlete. This book became a bestseller, was published in three dozen countries, and David received the August Prize and numerous positive reviews from critics around the world.
David's first fiction novel was Fall of Man in Wilmslow, whose title was translated into Russian as The Temptation of Turing, a story about Alan Turing, the mathematician who saved the world during World War II.
In 2015, David finished work on the fourth volume of the sequel to The Millennium, a famous bestseller by Stig Larrson. Unfortunately, Larrson died of a heart attack in 2006, and his trilogy was published posthumously and completely filmed. At the request of Norstedts, David agreed to conclude a contract to create a continuation of the popular trilogy and brilliantly coped with this task.
Lagercrantz’s book, The Girl Who Stuck on the Web, was filmed in 2018. In 2017, the fifth part was released, the events of which almost entirely occur in the prison, where the girl ended up at the end of the previous story. And in August 2019, the sixth book of the cycle, entitled “The Girl Must Die, ” was released.
