Per Wendel

{{Short description|Swedish journalist}}

Per Wendel, (28 January 1947 - 10 October 2005) was a Swedish journalist. He worked for the Expressen newspaper from 1973 until his death.{{cite web|url=http://www.expressen.se/nyheter/per-wendel-dod/|title=PER WENDEL DÖD|work=Expressen|accessdate=27 December 2014}} Wendel was the main investigative journalist who told about the Ebbe Carlsson affair, which forced the then justice-minister Anna-Greta Leijon to resign. After Wendels funeral after his death from cancer in 2005, Expressen started the Per Wendel-pris an annual award for investigative journalists.{{cite web|url=http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article10680151.ab|title=Journalisten Per Wendel död|work=Aftonbladet|accessdate=27 December 2014}}{{cite web|url=http://www.resume.se/taggar/p/per-wendel-priset/|title=Resumé: Per Wendel-priset|publisher=Resume|accessdate=27 December 2014}}