Lenin Award | |
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Location | Varberg |
Country | Sweden |
Presented by | Lasse Diding |
Reward(s) | 100,000 SEK (11655.01 USD) |
First awarded | 2009 |
Website | leninpriset.se |
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.[1] 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.[2]