The 2025 laureates:

Andreas Malm

Jan Myrdal's big prize – the Lenin Award for 2025 goes to Andreas Malm. “The human ecologist, Marxist and activist Andreas Malm has, with his life at stake in the era of racism, imperialist wars, Palestinian genocide and climate disasters, with his burning intellectual courage and uncompromising integrity, become an absolutely decisive Swedish voice in the world.” Click to read the full justification.

Andi Olluri

Jan Myrdal’s small prize – the Robespierre Prize 2025 goes to Andi Olluri. "The young activist and student Andi Olluri has already at the age of 20 established himself as a sharp media and system critic when it comes to the power over our thoughts. In the spirit of Jan Myrdal, he has systematically gone to the newspaper files and with stunning empirical evidence and logic demonstrated the stupidity, hypocrisy and double standards..." Click to read the full justification.

Read all about the award ceremony in Varberg 15 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.