Jerusalem Prize
The Jerusalem Prize for Individual Freedom in Society is a literary and human rights prize awarded by the city of Jerusalem every two years during the Israeli International Book Fair in Jerusalem. Committed writers are honored with it in the sense of the award name. The award is endowed with 10,000 US dollars (as of 2019); the aim is to show that, given the relatively low amount of money, it is a purely symbolic price.
Award winners
- 1963 Bertrand Russell
- 1965 Max Frisch
- 1967 André Schwarz-Bart
- 1969 Ignazio Silone
- 1971 Jorge Luis Borges
- 1973 Eugène Ionesco
- 1975 Simone de Beauvoir
- 1977 Octavio Paz
- 1979 Isaiah Berlin
- 1981 Graham Greene
- 1983 VS Naipaul
- 1985 Milan Kundera
- 1987 JM Coetzee
- 1989 Ernesto Sabato
- 1991 Zbigniew Herbert
- 1993 Stefan Heym
- 1995 Mario Vargas Llosa
- 1997 Jorge Semprún
- 1999 Don DeLillo
- 2001 Susan Sontag
- 2003 Arthur Miller
- 2005 António Lobo Antunes
- 2007 Leszek Kołakowski
- 2009 Haruki Murakami
- 2011 Ian McEwan
- 2013 Antonio Muñoz Molina
- 2015 Ismail Kadare
- 2017 Karl Ove Knausgård
- 2019 Joyce Carol Oates
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Joyce Carol Oates Is Named the 2019 Jerusalem Prize Winner , Article January 17, 2019 in Publishing Perspectives , accessed January 18, 2019.