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David Lagercrantz (born 4 September 1962) is a Swedish journalist and author, internationally known as the author of I am Zlatan Ibrahimović, The Girl in the Spider’s Web and The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye, the latter two being the fourth and fifth installments respectively in the Millennium series originated by Stieg Larsson. He is a board member of Swedish PEN.

Lagercrantz grew up in Solna, Stockholm. He studied philosophy and religion at university and subsequently graduated from the Gothenburg school of journalism. He began his career as a reporter at regional newspaper Sundsvalls Tidning as crime reporter and continued on to the national daily newspaper Expressen, where he covered some of the major criminal cases of the late '80s and early '90s in Sweden, notably the Åmsele murders, later to become the topic of his book Änglarna i Åmsele.