The Stig Dagerman Prize ( sv, Stig Dagermanpriset) is a Swedish award given since 1996 by the Stig Dagerman Society and Älvkarleby municipality.Stig Dagerman Prize
, official website It is named in honor of Swedish author

Stig Dagerman Stig Halvard Dagerman (5 October 1923 – 4 November 1954) was a Swedish author and journalist prominent in the aftermath of World War II. Biography Stig Dagerman was born Stig Halvard Andersson in Älvkarleby, Uppsala County. He later took hi ...

. The award is given to a person who, or an organization that, in the spirit of Stig Dagerman, supports the significance and availability of the "free word" (freedom of speech), promoting inter-cultural understanding and empathy.Annual Award
Stig Dagerman website, maintained by Lo Dagerman. It was inspired by Dagerman's poem ''En dag om året'' that sets forth a vision of peace for humanity by imagining one day each year when the world is free from violence. The award ceremony takes place the first weekend in June each year at Laxön in Älvkarleby. The prize is . On two occasions, 2004 and 2008, the prize winner subsequently won the

Nobel Prize in Literature ) , image = Nobel Prize.png , caption = , awarded_for = Outstanding contributions in literature , presenter = Swedish Academy , holder = Annie Ernaux (2022) , location = Stockholm, Sweden , year = 1901 ...

in the same year.

Laureates

*1996 – John Hron (posthumously) *1997 – Yasar Kemal *1998 – The Swedish Public Library *1999 – Ahmad Shamloo *2000 – Roy Andersson *2001 – Elsie Johansson *2002 –

Gitta Sereny Gitta Sereny, CBE (13 March 192114 June 2012) was an Austrian-British biographer, historian, and investigative journalist who came to be known for her interviews and profiles of infamous figures, including Mary Bell, who was convicted in 196 ...

*2003 –

Lukas Moodysson Karl Fredrik Lukas Moodysson (; born 17 January 1969) is a Swedish novelist, short story writer and film director. First coming to prominence as an ambitious poet in the 1980s, he had his big domestic and international breakthrough directing the ...

*2004 –

Elfriede Jelinek Elfriede Jelinek (; born 20 October 1946) is an Austrian playwright and novelist. She is one of the most decorated authors writing in German today and was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature for her "musical flow of voices and counter-vo ...

*2005 –

Göran Palm Göran or Jöran (both pronounced ) is the Swedish form of George, not to be confused with the Slavic Goran. Notable people with the name include: *Göran Andersson, Swedish sport sailor *Göran Bror Benny Andersson Swedish musician, compose ...

*2006 –

Sigrid Kahle Sigrid Ida Matilda Kahle (née Nyberg; 18 September 1928 – 31 December 2013) was a Swedish journalist and writer. She was born in Paris in 1928, to the orientalist H.S. Nyberg and his wife Fanny, née Hasselberg. She grew up in Uppsala where ...

*2007 – Lasse Berg *2008 – J. M. G. Le Clézio *2009 – Birgitta Wallin and magazine '' Karavan'' *2010 – Eduardo Galeano *2011 – Judit Benedek and the theatre project SOS-Romer *2012 –

Nawal El Saadawi Nawal El Saadawi ( ar, نوال السعداوي, , 22 October 1931 – 21 March 2021) was an Egyptian feminist writer, activist and physician. She wrote many books on the subject of women in Islam, paying particular attention to the practice ...

*2013 – No one is illegal *2014 – *2015 –

Suzanne Osten Carlota Suzanne Osten (born 20 June 1944) is a Swedish film director stage director and screenwriter. She won the award for Best Director at the 22nd Guldbagge Awards for the film '' The Mozart Brothers''. Biography Suzanne Osten was born i ...

*2016 –

Adonis In Greek mythology, Adonis, ; derived from the Canaanite word ''ʼadōn'', meaning "lord".R. S. P. Beekes, ''Etymological Dictionary of Greek'', Brill, 2009, p. 23. was the mortal lover of the goddess Aphrodite. One day, Adonis was gored by a ...

*2017 – Anders Kompass *2018 –

Amos Oz Amos Oz ( he, עמוס עוז; born Amos Klausner; 4 May 1939 – 28 December 2018) was an Israeli writer, novelist, journalist, and intellectual. He was also a professor of Hebrew literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. From 1967 onwa ...

*2019 – Britta Marakatt-Labba *2020 –

Magda Gad Magda Gad (born 17 October 1975 in Falun) is a Swedish war correspondent and Middle Eastern analyst who writes, photographs and films her stories. She has been a correspondent for the Swedish media outlet ''Expressen'' since 2015''.'' Gad cam ...

*2021 – ''no award'' *2022 – Maria Kalesnikava

References

External links

* {{Stig Dagerman Prize winners 1996 establishments in Sweden Awards established in 1996 Swedish awards Swedish literary awards