Monismanien Prize
Prize awarded at Uppsala University
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The Monismanien Prize (Monismanienpriset) is awarded by Göteborgs nation at Uppsala University. The prize is awarded to organizations and individuals who have made great efforts to defend freedom of speech.
History
Monismanien Prize was founded in 1975 by Swedish filmmaker Kenne Fant (1923–2016) in memory of Torgny Segerstedt (1876-1945) who served as editor-in-chief of the newspaper Göteborgs Handels- och Sjöfartstidning. Kenne Fant received an award of SEK 124,000 from the Swedish Film Institute for his film Monismanien 1995 (1975) which takes place in a futuristic society with a dictatorship and no freedom of speech. He set aside this money as a basis for the Monismanien Foundation, which administers the prize. Today the foundation has grown significantly and the price is therefor considerably larger. The next Monismanien prize recipient will be announced fall 2022. [1] [2][3][4] [5]
Notable past recipients
- Alva Myrdal - 1976
- Simone Veil- 1977
- Lech Wałęsa- 1981
- Günter Wallraff - 1984
- André Brink- 1989
- Andre Brink - 1992
- Taslima Nasrin - 1995
- Yasar Kemal- 1997
- Desmond Tutu - 1999
- John Pilger - 2001
- Emily Lau- 2003
- Václav Havel - 2005
- Margot Wallström- 2009
- Herta Müller -2011
- Raif Badawi - 2017
- Ulla Carlsson - 2019
- No recipient due to a pandemic - 2021
- Eliot Higgins - Bellingcat - 2022
