books were essentially fictionalised portraits of the Sweden few people knew, a place where latent white supremacy found expression in all aspects of contemporary life, and anti-extremists lived in persistent fear of attack. "Everything of this nature described in the Millennium trilogy has happened at one time or another to a Swedish citizen, journalist, politician, public prosecutor, unionist, or policeman," she writes. "Nothing was made up." Similarities also exist between Larsson's Lisbeth Salander and Peter O'Donnell's Modesty Blaise. Both are women from disastrous childhoods, who somehow survive to become adults with notable skills, including fighting, and who accomplish good by operating somewhat outside the law. One of Larsson's villains, Ronald Niedermann (blond hulk), has much in common with the invulnerable, sociopathic giant named Simon Delicata in the fourth Modesty Blaise book A Taste for Death. Awards 2005 – Glass Key award, Män som hatar kvinnor 2006 – Best Swedish Crime Novel Award, Flickan som lekte med elden 2008 – Glass Key award, Luftslottet som sprängdes 2008 – ITV3 Crime Thriller Award for International Author of the Year, UK, for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 2008 – Exclusive Books Boeke Prize, South Africa, for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 2009 – Galaxy British Book Awards, Books Direct Crime Thriller of the Year, UK, for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 2009 – Anthony Award, Best First Novel, for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 2009 – General Council of the Judiciary, Spain, for his contribution to the fight against domestic violence 2010 – USA Today'''s Author of the Year. Stieg Larsson was the first author to sell more than one million e-books on Amazon.com. Biographies Kurdo Baksi, Larsson's former colleague at Expo, published Min vän Stieg Larsson ("My Friend Stieg Larsson") in January 2010. Barry Forshaw's English language biography was published in April 2010. Larsson's widow Eva Gabrielsson released her memoir Millennium, Stieg & jag in 2011, published in English the same year as "There Are Things I Want You to Know" About Stieg Larsson and Me. In 2018 a study by Jan Stocklassa of Larsson's research into Palme's assassination was released in Swedish, and in English the following year, translated by Tara F. Chace, under the title The Man Who Played with Fire: Stieg Larsson's Lost Files and the Hunt for an Assassin. Stieg Larsson prize Since 2009 Larsson's family and Norstedts have instituted an annual award of