Kellgren Prize
The Kellgren Prize ( Swedish Kellgrenpriset ) is a Swedish literary prize . The prize, dedicated to the poet and enlightener Johan Henrik Kellgren (1751–1795), was founded in 1979 and is awarded annually by the Swedish Academy . It is endowed with 200,000 crowns (as of 2018); It is financed by the Karin och Karl Ragnar Gierows donation fund .
Award winners
1979-1990
- 1979: Karl Vennberg
 - 1980: Sven Barthel
 - 1981: Tomas Tranströmer
 - 1982: Gunnel Ahlin , Lars Ahlin
 - 1983: Johannes Edfelt
 - 1984: Kerstin Ekman
 - 1985: Lars Norén
 - 1986: Lars Gyllensten
 - 1987: Ulf Linde
 - 1988: Knut Ahnlund
 - 1989: Sven Delblanc
 - 1990: PC Jersild
 
1991-2000
- 1991: Birgitta Defiant
 - 1992: Sune Örnberg
 - 1993: Torgny Segerstedt
 - 1994: Johannes Edfelt
 - 1995: Inge Jonsson
 - 1996: Stig Claesson
 - 1997: Johan Asplund
 - 1998: Kjell Espmark
 - 1999: Torsten Ekbom
 - 2000: Sven Lindqvist
 
2001-2010
- 2001: Göran Malmqvist
 - 2002: Sven-Eric Liedman
 - 2003: Thomas von Vegesack
 - 2004: Anders Bodegård
 - 2005: Yvonne Hirdman
 - 2006: Anders Piltz
 - 2007: Harry Järv
 - 2008: Ingvar Björkeson
 - 2009: Bengt Emil Johnson
 - 2010: Jan Stolpe
 
Since 2011
- 2011: Aris Fioretos
 - 2012: Agneta Pleijel
 - 2013: Maciej Zaremba
 - 2014: Matti Klinge
 - 2015: Cecilia Lindqvist
 - 2016: Eva Österberg
 - 2017: Johan Svedjedal
 - 2018: Ulf Peter Hallberg
 - 2019: Fredric Bedoire
 
Individual evidence
- ^ Michael Assmann: German Academy for Language and Poetry. Wallstein Verlag, ISBN 9783892442165 , p. 239. limited preview in Google book search
 - ^ Julian Schütt: Literature: "Political madness is no merit" - Die Weltwoche, edition 51/2005. In: weltwoche.ch. May 25, 2012, accessed December 30, 2014 .
 - ↑ Göran Malmqvist. (No longer available online.) In: svenskaakademien.se. Archived from the original on December 20, 2014 ; accessed on December 30, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
 - ↑ Aris Fioretos. In: die-horen.de. Retrieved December 30, 2014 .