From fiction to informative urgency: the killing of Utoya and the prospective analysis of Stieg Larsson

Abstract

The violent irruption in all newsrooms of the Oslo terrorist attack and the killings of Utoya lead journalists to look for an inmediate understanding of the facts. The usual informative analysis wasn’t able to explain the causes of what had happenef and the international background directed to other conflicts unrelated to that situation. International public opinion looked for the deep explanation to the attacks in the Swedish writer Stieg Larsson’s trilogy Millenium. The analysis of the chronicles published in the Spanish press the days after the attack corroborates the bitter political and social diagnosis that is behind the success of Scandinavian present day thrillers.