• Source: Lenin Award (Sweden)

Jan Myrdal’s big prize – The Lenin Award is a Swedish cultural award that is awarded annually by Lasse Diding to a writer or artist in Sweden who operates with social criticism and in a rebellious leftist tradition. In 2016, the award was called the Jan Myrdal Library's big prize – the Lenin Award and in 2017–2021 the award was just called the Lenin Award.




Background


With its 100,000 SEK, the award is one of Sweden's largest literary awards. The award winner, who can be nominated by anyone and until 2017 was chosen by the board of the Jan Myrdal Society, should, when the Jan Myrdal Society gave out the award, be a Swedish "writer or artist working in Jan Myrdal's critical and rebellious tradition". This tradition was called "refractory" by the Jan Myrdal Society.
The award was instituted in connection with the founding of the Jan Myrdal Society in 2008, on the initiative of, among others, the entrepreneur Lasse Diding before Jan Myrdal's and Andrea Gaytan Vegas's wedding. The original name of the award was "Jan Myrdal's big prize - the Lenin Award".
During the period 2016–2018, the Jan Myrdal Society carried out a change of its statutes with the aim of separating the award from the person of Jan Myrdal and from the Jan Myrdal Society. As a first step, the award was referred to as "the Jan Myrdal Library's big prize – the Lenin Award" in 2016 at Jan Myrdal's request. In 2017, the award was referred to solely as “the Lenin Award". This change took several years to finish, as two AGM resolutions are required to amend the statutes of the Jan Myrdal Society. In 2022 the award was once again called Jan Myrdal’s big prize – the Lenin Award after an agreement between Lasse Diding and Jan Myrdal before the latter’s death in 2020.
The choice to name the award after Vladimir Lenin has been controversial; among others, Peter Englund has criticized the choice of name on his blog. In 2013, author Susanna Alakoski declined the award because she did not want to be associated with "totalitarian ideologies or regimes". In the same year, the award and the 2013 laureate Maj Sjöwall were criticized by Carl Bildt.




Laureates






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In 2016, the award was called the Jan Myrdal Library's big prize – the Lenin Award and in 2017–2021 the award was just called the Lenin Award.

2009 – Mattias Gardell, author and historian
2010 – Roy Andersson, film director
2011 – Maj Wechselmann, documentary filmmaker
2012 – Sven Lindqvist, author
2013 – Maj Sjöwall, author and screenwriter
2014 – Jan Guillou, journalist and author
2015 – Mikael Wiehe, musician and lyricist
2016 – Mikael Nyberg, author and editor
2017 – Stefan Jarl, film director
2018 – Sven Wollter, actor and author
2019 – Göran Therborn, professor and Marxist sociologist
2020 – Kajsa Ekis Ekman, journalist and author
2021 – Nina Björk, journalist, literary scholar and author
2022 – Carl-Göran Ekerwald, author and translator
2023 – Karl Ove Knausgård, author
2024 – Martin Hägglund, philosopher and scholar of modernist literature




See also


The Robespierre Prize
Vladimir Lenin




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Roy Andersson
• Lenin Award (Sweden)
• Lenin Peace Prize
• Vladimir Lenin
• Nina Björk
• Government of Vladimir Lenin
• Death and state funeral of Vladimir Lenin
• Assassination attempts on Vladimir Lenin
• List of statues of Vladimir Lenin
• Vladimir Lenin bibliography
• Revolutionary activity of Vladimir Lenin