Gunn Wållgren Award

The Gunn Wållgren Award or The Gunn Wållgren Scholarship Award (in Swedish: Gunn Wållgren-stipendiet) is one of Sweden's finest theatre awards for young actresses. It was instituted in the 1980s in memory and honor of Swedish actress Gunn Wållgren, one of the Swedish theatre's finest stage actresses.

It is given out annually on Wållgren's birthday (November 16) to a young promising Swedish actress of the stage.

The prize sum consists of 20,000 Swedish Kronor (approximately US$2,950).

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