John Lindqvist: "This is why they took the Millennium saga away from me"
SEEN FROM ELSEWHERE - A novel by the Swedish writer was to be the seventh part of the Millénium literary series. The author explains why it was not so.
By Claudia Morgoglione (la Repubblica)
Imagine a Swedish noir saga, beloved internationally. The publishing house asks a renowned writer to write the seventh chapter, but then rejects it for “excessive sex”. The writer, who decides to publish it anyway – out of conviction, or perhaps out of revenge – only changes the gender of the protagonists: the middle-aged man becomes a woman, and the young woman, a man. This is not the plot of a bestseller, but what really happened to John Ajvide Lindqvist, master of Scandinavian horror, and his book Skriften i vattnet (not translated into French), against the backdrop of the Millennium series created by Stieg Larsson . To find out more, we caught up with him on Zoom, while he was on holiday in the Canary Islands.
LA REPUBBLICA. - John, can you tell us about the tumultuous genesis of this novel, which has just been published in Italy?
JOHN LINDQVIST - Millennium in…
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