The Robespierre Prize is a Swedish cultural award, which is given out annually since 2010[1] and is funded by Lasse Diding.
The prize rewards a younger Swedish writer or artist who works in a critical spirit.
In 2013, that year's laureate Gabriela Pichler was criticized in the major Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter for accepting an award named after Robespierre.
[5] When the award went to Sápmi Sisters in 2016, the duo refused to accept because they considered Jan Myrdal to be homophobic.
[7] This change took several years to finish, as two AGM resolutions are required to amend the statutes of the Jan Myrdal Society.