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Lenin Award (Sweden)
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. Background With its 100,000 SEK, the award is one of Sweden's largest literary awards. The award winner, who can be nominated by anyone and until 2017 was chosen by the board of the Jan Myrdal Society, should, when the Jan Myrdal Society gave out the award, be a Swedish "writer or artist working in Jan Myrdal's critical and rebellious tradition". This tradition was called "refractory" by the Jan Myrdal Society. The award was instituted in connection with the founding of the Jan Myrdal Society in 2008, on the initiative of, among others, the entrepreneur Lasse Diding before Jan Myrdal's and Andrea Gaytan Vegas's wedding. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, Finland to the east, and is connected to Denmark in the southwest by a bridgetunnel across the Öresund. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic country, the third-largest country in the European Union, and the fifth-largest country in Europe. The capital and largest city is Stockholm. Sweden has a total population of 10.5 million, and a low population density of , with around 87% of Swedes residing in urban areas in the central and southern half of the country. Sweden has a nature dominated by forests and a large amount of lakes, including some of the largest in Europe. Many long rivers run from the Scandes range through the landscape, primarily ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Guillou
Jan Oskar Sverre Lucien Henri Guillou (, ; born 17 January 1944) is a French-Swedish author and journalist. Guillou's fame in Sweden was established during his time as an investigative journalist, most notably in 1973 when he and co-reporter Peter Bratt exposed a secret and illegal intelligence organization in Sweden, '' Informationsbyrån'' (IB). He is still active within journalism as a column writer for the Swedish evening tabloid ''Aftonbladet''. Among his books are a series of spy fiction novels about a spy named Carl Hamilton, and a trilogy(+) of historical fiction novels about a Knight Templar, Arn Magnusson. He is the owner of one of the largest publishing companies in Sweden, Piratförlaget (''Pirate Publishing''), together with his wife, publisher Ann-Marie Skarp, and Liza Marklund. Life and career Guillou was born in Södertälje, Stockholm County, Sweden. His Breton-Swedish father Charles Guillou (1922–2020) came to Sweden, as the son of a member of the French ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swedish Awards
Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland ** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by the Swedish language * Swedish people or Swedes, persons with a Swedish ancestral or ethnic identity ** A national or citizen of Sweden, see demographics of Sweden ** Culture of Sweden * Swedish cuisine See also * * Swedish Church (other) * Swedish Institute (other) * Swedish invasion (other) * Swedish Open (other) Swedish Open is a tennis tournament. Swedish Open may also refer to: *Swedish Open (badminton) * Swedish Open (table tennis) *Swedish Open (squash) *Swedish Open (darts) The Swedish Open is a darts tournament established in 1969, held in Malmà ... {{disambig Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robespierre Prize
The Robespierre Prize is a Swedish cultural award, which is given out annually since 2010 and is funded by Lasse Diding. The prize rewards a younger Swedish writer or artist who works in a critical spirit. In the years 2010–2017, the award winner was chosen by the Jan Myrdal Society. In 2010–2015, the Maximilien Robespierre, Robespierre Prize was called "Jan Myrdal's small prize – the Robespierre Prize". In 2016, the prize was called “Jan Myrdal Library's small prize – the Robespierre Prize. The Robespierre Prize, which is worth SEK 25,000, would, when the Jan Myrdal Society selected the laureate, award a young, promising writer or artist who worked in Jan Myrdal's critical spirit. The prize money was SEK 10,000 in 2010–2021 and was raised to SEK 25,000 with the 2022 prize to Aleksej Sachnin. The Robespierre Prize is given out simultaneously with the Lenin Award (Sweden), Lenin Award. In 2013, that year's laureate Gabriela Pichler was criticized in the major Swedish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl-Göran Ekerwald
Carl-Göran Ekerwald (born 30 December 1923) is a Swedish novelist, literary critic, forest worker and teacher. Among his works are the short story collection ''Kumminåkern'' from 1962, and ''Skogvaktarens pojke'' from 2002. He was awarded the Dobloug Prize The Dobloug Prize ( sv, Doblougska priset, no, Doblougprisen) is a literature prize awarded for Swedish and Norwegian fiction. The prize is named after Norwegian businessman and philanthropist Birger Dobloug (1881–1944) pursuant to his bequest. T ... in 1987. References 1923 births Living people 20th-century Swedish novelists 21st-century Swedish novelists Dobloug Prize winners Litteris et Artibus recipients Swedish male novelists 20th-century Swedish male writers 21st-century male writers {{Sweden-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nina Björk
Nina Björk (born May 18, 1967 in Östersund, Jämtland) is a Swedish feminist, author and journalist. She is most well known for '' Under det rosa täcket (Under the Pink Duvet)'', a feminist book written in 1996. She is considered to be a left-wing equity feminist. In 2008 she earned her PhD degree in literary criticism at Gothenburg University with her doctorate thesis ''Fria Själar''. She is also well known as a columnist in ''Dagens Nyheter''. She was awarded the Lenin Award (Sweden) in 2021, and at the prize ceremony, Kajsa Ekis Ekman Kajsa "Ekis" Ekman is a Swedish author and journalist. She has written four books, translated into several languages, about capitalism, economic crises, and women's rights. She lectures internationally on prostitution and surrogacy. She is a regul ... said about Björk: "She does not seek to take opponents apart, and therefore never uses their worst arguments when they have messed up. She does not come from behind, she says, choose your wea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kajsa Ekis Ekman
Kajsa "Ekis" Ekman is a Swedish author and journalist. She has written four books, translated into several languages, about capitalism, economic crises, and women's rights. She lectures internationally on prostitution and surrogacy. She is a regular contributor to the Swedish newspaper ''Aftonbladet'' and is a columnist in the Norwegian newspaper ''Klassekampen.'' She has also contributed to Kathemerini. Books Her book ''Being and Being Bought'', compares the sex industry and the surrogacy industry, and how they both commodify women's bodies. It argues that both industries are at the intersection between capitalism and patriarchy. It criticizes the notion of sex work as being an unholy alliance between the neoliberal right and the postmodern left, used to legitimize the sex industry. After two years of investigating so-called "trade unions for sex workers" in Europe, often undercover, she notices that they in many cases are funded by pimps, states, and academics, and have very l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Göran Therborn
Göran Therborn FAcSS (23 September 1941, Kalmar, Sweden) is a professor of sociology at Cambridge University and is amongst the most highly cited contemporary Marxian-influenced sociologists. He has published widely in journals such as the ''New Left Review'', and is notable for his writing on topics that fall within the general political and sociological framework of post-Marxism. Topics on which he has written extensively include the intersection between the class structure of society and the function of the state apparatus, the formation of ideology within subjects, and the future of the Marxist tradition. Therborn was awarded the 2019 Lenin Award. Education Therborn was born in 1941 into a landowning family. He graduated from the gymnasium in Hanseatic Kalmar in 1960. He attended Lund University in Sweden, where he received a Fil. Dr. in 1974. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sven Wollter
Sven Justus Fredrik Wollter (11 January 1934 – 10 November 2020) was a Swedish actor, writer, and political activist. Wollter is one of the most renowned Swedish actors, he was awarded Best Swedish actor twice. In his native country, he became widely known through his role as Madame Flod's son Gusten in Swedish Television's adaption of '' The People of Hemsö'' by August Strindberg in 1966. Later he had several notable roles, including in 1976 when he played Detective Sergeant Lennart Kollberg in Bo Widerberg's film ''The Man on the Roof''. For international viewers, he is best known for his role Victor in the dramatic film '' The Sacrifice'' by Andrei Tarkovsky, and for a wider television audience as the retired Detective Chief Inspector Van Veeteren in the cinematic adaptations of Håkan Nesser's police novels. Biography Sven Wollter was born in Gothenburg, Sweden. He was the son of editor Kjell Wollter (1884–1950) and Elsa, née Ekwall (1905–1980). After studying at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefan Jarl
Stefan Jarl (born 18 March 1941) is a Swedish film director best known for his documentaries. Together with Jan Lindqvist he made the ''Mods Trilogy'', three films which follow a group of alienated people in Stockholm from the 1960s to the 1990s, '' They Call Us Misfits'' (1968), '' A Respectable Life'' (1979) and ''The Social Heritage'' (1993). ''A Respectable Life'' won the 1979 Guldbagge Awards for Best Film and Best Director. Jarl also wrote and directed '' Jag är din krigare'' (1997), and directed '' Terrorists: The Kids They Sentenced'' (2003), ''The Girl From Auschwitz'' (2005), and ''Submission'' (2010), a documentary about the "chemical burden" of synthetics and plastics carried by people born after World War II. At the 25th Guldbagge Awards in 1990 he won the Creative Achievement award and in 2017 Jarl received the Lenin Award. Selected filmography * '' They Call Us Misfits'' (''Dom kallar oss mods'') codirector Jan Lindqvist * '' A Respectable Life'' (''Ett anständ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikael Nyberg
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Mikael Wiehe
Mikael Christian Wiehe (born 10 April 1946 in Stockholm) is a Swedish singer, multi-instrumentalist and composer. As the main songwriter and driving force of Hoola Bandoola Band he was also one of the most important people in the progg movement. Career Wiehe's father was Danish and he spent the first six years of his life in Copenhagen. His father left the family when Wiehe was five years old, and when he was six his mother moved with the family to Malmö, in the Scania region of southern Sweden, giving Wiehe his noticeable Scanian accent. He is a leftist folk musician, dealing with what he considers right and wrong in the society from the eyes of the proletariat, but he also writes personal, non-political songs. Wiehe was one of the lead singers and the leading songwriter of Hoola Bandoola Band in the 1970s. After the band broke up in 1975, he was the leader of various other bands before becoming a solo artist in the early 1980s. He was a close friend of Björn Afzelius, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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