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The 2024 Lenin Award

Welcome to participate in the 2024 award ceremony for Jan Myrdal's big prize – the Lenin Award and Jan Myrdal's small prize – the Robespierre Prize and the subsequent festivities! The awards will be given out by Lasse Diding at Varberg Theatre on Saturday 9 November at 13:00. There’s free entrance to the award ceremony and everyone is welcome!

The award ceremony will include a speech to Martin Hägglund by 2023 Lenin Award laureate Karl Ove Knausgård and music by Jonsereds Proggorkester led by Bosse Stenholm with guest artist Maria Stellas. The day will end with a big party at Gästis Kafé & Matsalar in Varberg. See the full program below.

Room rates and booking, Hotell Gästis and Hotell Havanna

Saturday: Single room 1250 SEK + party 450 SEK, in double room 950 SEK pp + party 450 SEK pp.
Friday: Single room 1250 SEK, in double room 950 SEK pp.
Room rates include: Overnight stay, breakfast and admittance to the Lenin Spa or Havanna Bath & Spa.

Saturday’s party at Gästis Kafé & Matsalar includes a main course, cheese platter and cake buffet as well as music entertainment.

NOTE! You must call Hotell Gästis +4634018050 or Hotell Havanna +4634010050 and book your stay. Explain that you’re going to the Lenin Award party! (Cannot be booked through the hotel’s websites or other booking sites online.)

Cancellation Terms

Room reservations can be cancelled no later than 3 days before arrival. Cancellation after that means full charge.

Lenin Award party only

A limited number of tickets for the party only for SEK 450 are available for purchase at Tickster.

NOTE. If you have a room reservation at Hotell Gästis or Hotell Havanna, you do not need to buy a ticket.

Tickets

Program for Saturday 9 november

13.00 Award ceremony at Varberg Theatre with Lasse Diding as master of ceremonies. Speech to Martin Hägglund from 2023 Lenin Award laureate Karl Ove Knausgård and to Fanny Klang by 2023 Robespierre Prize laureate Amanda Werne. Music by Jonsereds Proggorkester led by Bosse Stenholm with guest artist Maria Stellas.

15.15 Member meeting for the Jan Myrdal Society at Varberg Theatre.

17.00 Open house in the Jan Myrdal library at Snidaregatan 20.

18.00 Party, dinner and entertainment at Gästis Kafé & Matsalar.

Hotell Gästis

Hotell Havanna

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."