The 2024 laureates:

Martin Hägglund

Jan Myrdal’s big prize – the Lenin Award for 2024 goes to Martin Hägglund. “With the deepest knowledge, prophetic seriousness and supreme philosophical overview, Martin Hägglund in his monumental work "This Life – Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom" fixes his gaze on the morally decisive life questions for us humans about the meaning of existence in a self-evident yet completely new way. Like a contemporary inquisitive Socrates, this socialist and teacher of wisdom accompanies us on a journey through the history of literature and philosophy...” Click to read the full justification.

Fanny Klang

Jan Myrdal’s small prize – the Robespierre Prize for 2024 goes to Fanny Klang. "In a time when the calls for stricter penalties are getting louder and the overcrowded prisons are expanding at record speed, it is more relevant than ever to portray and review the Swedish correctional system, something Fanny Klang, after several years of working on the floor within the agency, does with great insight and clarity in her debut novel Closed Institution, which succeeds with the art of being both a leaded contribution to the debate on a burning social issue and sensationally good literature."

Read all about the award ceremony in Varberg 9 November here!

The Lenin Award

“A kick in the nuts aimed at the powers that be”. That’s how Lasse Diding describes the purpose of Jan Myrdal's big prize – the Lenin Award that’s awarded every year to an author or artist in Sweden, who operates with social criticism and in a rebellious leftist tradition. With the prize money amounting to 100,000 SEK, the Lenin Award is one of the bigger cultural awards in Sweden – and without a shadow of a doubt the most contentious! Jan Myrdal's small prize – the Robespierre Prize amounts to 25,000 SEK and should reward a young Swedish writer or artist, who operates in a critical spirit.