The Stig Dagerman Prize () 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. 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 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 2003 – Lukas Moodysson 2004 – Elfriede Jelinek 2005 – Göran Palm 2006 – Sigrid Kahle 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 2013 – No one is illegal 2014 – 2015 – Suzanne Osten 2016 – Adonis 2017 – Anders Kompass 2018 – Amos Oz 2019 – Britta Marakatt-Labba 2020 – Magda Gad 2021 – no award 2022 – Maria Kalesnikava 2023 – Carina Rydberg 2024 –
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