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Jerusalem Prize

The Jerusalem Prize for the Freedom of the Individual in Society is a biennial literary award given to writers whose works have dealt with themes of human freedom in society.[1]

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Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek (r) handing French author André Schwarz-Bart the 1967 Jerusalem Prize for Literature
Awarded forwriters whose works have dealt with themes of human freedom in society
LocationJerusalem
Presented byOrganisers of the Jerusalem International Book Forum
First award1963; 62 years ago (1963)
Websitehttps://www.jbookforum.com/jerusalem-prize-winner
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It is awarded at the Jerusalem International Book Forum (previously known as the Jerusalem International Book Fair), and the recipient usually delivers an address when accepting the award. The award is valued at $10,000.

The prize's inaugural year was 1963, awarded to Bertrand Russell who had won the Nobel Prize in 1950. Octavio Paz, V. S. Naipaul, J. M. Coetzee, and Mario Vargas Llosa all won the Jerusalem Prize prior to winning the Nobel Prize in Literature.

No prize was awarded in 2023, the first such occasion in the award's history.

List of laureates

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YearPictureNameNationalityLanguage(s)Genre(s)Refs
1963Bertrand Russell
(1872—1970)
United KingdomEnglishphilosophy, essay
1965Max Frisch
(1911—1991)
SwitzerlandGermandrama, novel, philosophy
1967André Schwarz-Bart
(1928—2006)
FranceFrenchnovel
1969Ignazio Silone
(1900—1978)
ItalyItaliannovel, short story, essay
1971Jorge Luis Borges
(1899—1986)
ArgentinaSpanishshort story, poetry, essay, philosophy, literary criticism, translation
1973Eugène Ionesco
(1909—1994)
Romania / FranceFrenchdrama, novel
1975Simone de Beauvoir
(1908—1986)
FranceFrenchphilosophy, novel, drama
1977Octavio Paz
(1914—1998)
MexicoSpanishpoetry, essay
1979Isaiah Berlin
(1909—1997)
Russia / United KingdomEnglishphilosophy, essay
1981Graham Greene
(1904—1991)
United KingdomEnglishnovel, short story, autobiography, drama, essay, screenplay
1983Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
(1932—2018)
Trinidad and Tobago / United KingdomEnglishnovel, short story, essay
1985Milan Kundera
(1929–2023)
Czechoslovakia / FranceCzech / Frenchnovel, short story, poetry, essay, drama
1987John Maxwell Coetzee
(b. 1940)
South Africa / AustraliaEnglishnovel, essay, translation
1989Ernesto Sabato
(1911—2011)
ArgentinaSpanishnovel, essay
1991Zbigniew Herbert
(1924—1998)
PolandPolishpoetry, essay, drama
1993Stefan Heym
(1913—2001)
GermanyGerman / Englishnovel, short story, autobiography, essay
1995Mario Vargas Llosa
(b. 1936)
Peru / SpainSpanishnovel, short story, essay, drama, memoirs
1997Jorge Semprún
(1923—2011)
SpainFrench / Spanishnovel, essay
1999Don DeLillo
(b. 1936)
United StatesEnglishnovel, short story, drama, screenplay, essay
2001Susan Sontag
(1933—2004)
United StatesEnglishshort story, novel, drama, essay
2003Arthur Miller
(1915—2005)
United StatesEnglishdrama, screenplay, essay
2005António Lobo Antunes
(b. 1942)
PortugalPortuguesenovel
2007Leszek Kołakowski
(1927—2009)
PolandPolishphilosophy, history
2009Haruki Murakami
(b. 1949)
JapanJapanesenovel, short story
2011Ian McEwan
(b. 1948)
United KingdomEnglishnovel, short story, drama, screenplay[2]
2013Antonio Muñoz Molina
(b. 1956)
SpainSpanishnovel[3]
2015Ismail Kadare
(1936—2024)
AlbaniaAlbaniannovel, short story, poetry, essay, drama, screenplay[4]
2017Karl Ove Knausgaard
(b. 1968)
NorwayNorwegiannovel, autobiography[5]
2019Joyce Carol Oates
(b. 1938)
United StatesEnglishnovel, short story, drama, essay, memoirs, poetry
2021Julian Barnes
(b. 1946)
United KingdomEnglishnovel, essay, memoirs, short story[6]
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