Per Wendel, (28 January 1947 - 10 October 2005) was a Swedish journalist. He worked for the

Expressen (''The Express'') is one of two nationwide evening newspapers in Sweden. Describing itself as independent liberal, was founded in 1944; its symbol is a wasp and its slogans are "it stings" or " to your rescue". The newspaper awards the cultu ...

newspaper from 1973 until his death. Wendel was the main investigative journalist who told about the Ebbe Carlsson affair, which forced the then justice-minister

Anna-Greta Leijon Anna-Greta Leijon (born Anna Margareta Maria Lejon; 30 June 1939 – 11 April 2024) was a Swedish Social Democratic politician. Leijon began her political career in 1964 at the , eventually becoming its director in 1970. From 1973 to 1976, she s ...

to resign. After Wendels funeral after his death from

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in 2005, Expressen started the Per Wendel-pris an annual award for investigative journalists.

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