NMLP P-043577 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest

Stieg Larsson · Norstedts (Stockholm) — Swedish original; MacLehose Press/Quercus (London) — first English · 2007

The census claim is upheld. Norstedts, Stockholm, 2007 (Luftslottet som sprängdes) is the original-language true first, published posthumously. In English, the UK MacLehose Press/Quercus hardback of October 2009 precedes the US Alfred A. Knopf edition, published 25 May 2010 — a gap of roughly seven months, wider and less contestable than on the sibling volume. Christopher MacLehose held the global English-language rights through MacLehose Press, an imprint of Quercus, and Knopf acquired the US rights. Both the Swedish original and the UK MacLehose first English are collected and should be named as distinct; the Knopf 2010 is the first American edition, not the true first. Third volume of the Millennium trilogy.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-043577 for "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest" by Stieg Larsson (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-043577, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).