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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
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and from the Jan Myrdal
Society. As a first step, the award was referred to as "the Jan Myrdal Library's big prize – the Lenin Award" in 2016 at Jan Myrdal's request. In 2017, the award was referred to solely as “the Lenin Award". This change took several years to finish, as two AGM resolutions are
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required to amend the statutes of the Jan Myrdal
Society. In 2022 the award was once again called Jan Myrdal’s big prize – the Lenin Award after an agreement between Lasse Diding and Jan Myrdal before the latter’s death in 2020.
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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.
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declined the award because she did not want to be associated with "totalitarian ideologies or regimes". In the same year, the award and the 2013 laureate
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During the period 2016–2018, the Jan Myrdal
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The award was instituted in connection with the founding of the Jan Myrdal
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In 2016, the award was called the Jan Myrdal
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before Jan Myrdal's and Andrea Gaytan Vegas's wedding. The original name of the award was "Jan Myrdal's big prize - the Lenin Award".
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critical and rebellious tradition". This tradition was called "refractory" by the Jan Myrdal
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