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 ...
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Varberg
Varberg () is a locality and the seat of Varberg Municipality, Halland County, Sweden, with 35,782 inhabitants in 2019. Varberg and all of Halland are well known for their "typical west coast" sandy beaches. In Varberg the coast changes from wide sandy beaches to rocky terrain that continues north into the Bohuslän archipelago and as far as the North Cape. Geography Varberg is located along the Swedish west coast and is a popular beach and surfing destination in both Sweden and Europe. It has a main landmark in the large Fortress and Castle of Varberg, through centuries many wars between Denmark and Sweden was fought here before Southern Sweden, including Varberg became permanently Swedish in 1658 through the Treaty of Roskilde. It is a small town with architecture mainly from the turn of the century and have several green parks such as the Society Park (Societetsparken) and the English Park. The green parks was however not always there, in fact in the 19th century the tow ...
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