Lenin Award (Sweden)

Lenin Award
Lasse Diding at the 2022 award ceremony.
LocationVarberg
CountrySweden
Presented byLasse Diding
Reward(s)100,000 SEK (11655.01 USD)
First award2009
Websiteleninpriset.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. 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.