Eva Gabrielsson and bestselling writer Stieg Larsson had always wanted to marry. But his sudden death didn’t just deprive her of her wedding day, it also plunged her into a nightmare of legal wrangling It was in 1983 that Eva Gabrielsson and Stieg Larsson first decided to get married. They had been together for a decade, after meeting at an anti-Vietnam war group when they were both 18. He had immediately caught her eye “because he was so different from the others in the anti-war movement”, she says, sitting in a bar in Soho in central London, a quiet, precise Swedish woman in her late 50s. “Some of them could be quite arrogant, obnoxious and self-righteous, but he was there because he thought the war was wrong, that this was a
Eva Gabrielsson and bestselling writer Stieg Larsson had always wanted to marry. But his sudden death didn’t just deprive her of her wedding day, it also plunged her into a nightmare of legal wrangling It was in 1983 that Eva Gabrielsson and Stieg Larsson first decided to get married. They had been together for a decade, after meeting at an anti-Vietnam war group when they were both 18. He had immediately caught her eye “because he was so different from the others in the anti-war movement”, she says, sitting in a bar in Soho in central London, a quiet, precise Swedish woman in her late 50s. “Some of them could be quite arrogant, obnoxious and self-righteous, but he was there because he thought the war was wrong, that this was a