{{Short description|Israeli literary award}} {{Infobox award | name = Jerusalem Prize | image = File:Schwarz-Bart-67.jpg | caption = Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek (r) handing French author André Schwarz-Bart the 1967 Jerusalem Prize for Literature | awarded_for = writers whose works have dealt with themes of human freedom in society | presenter = Organisers of the Jerusalem International Book Forum | location = Jerusalem | year = {{start date and age|1963}} }}
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.<ref name="jbookforum">{{cite web | url=https://www.jbookforum.com/jerusalem-prize-winner/ | title=The Jerusalem Prize | publisher=The Jerusalem International Book Forum | accessdate=4 March 2022}}</ref>
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== {| class="wikitable sortable" !Year !! Picture !! Name !! Nationality !! Languages !! Genres !! Refs<!--SECONDARY SOURCES--> |- | 1963 || 75px || Bertrand Russell <br> (1872–1970) || United Kingdom || English || Philosophy, essay || |- | 1965 || 75px || Max Frisch <br> (1911–1991) || Switzerland || German || Drama, novel, philosophy || |- | 1967 || 75px || André Schwarz-Bart <br> (1928–2006) || France || French || Novel || |- | 1969 || 75px || Ignazio Silone <br> (1900–1978) || Italy || Italian || Novel, short story, essay || |- | 1971 || 75px || Jorge Luis Borges <br> (1899–1986) || Argentina || Spanish || Short story, poetry, essay, philosophy, literary criticism, translation || |- | 1973 || 75px || Eugène Ionesco <br> (1909–1994) || Romania / France || French || Drama, novel || |- | 1975 || 75px || Simone de Beauvoir <br> (1908–1986) || France || French || Philosophy, novel, drama || |- | 1977 || 75px || Octavio Paz <br> (1914–1998) || Mexico || Spanish || Poetry, essay || |- | 1979 || 75px || Isaiah Berlin <br> (1909–1997) || Russia / United Kingdom || English || Philosophy, essay || |- | 1981 || 75px || Graham Greene <br> (1904–1991) || United Kingdom || English || Novel, short story, autobiography, drama, essay, screenplay || |- | 1983 || 75px || Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul <br> (1932–2018) || Trinidad and Tobago / United Kingdom || English || Novel, short story, essay || |- | 1985 || 75px || Milan Kundera <br> (1929–2023) || Czechoslovakia / France || Czech / French || Novel, short story, poetry, essay, drama || |- | 1987 || 75px || John Maxwell Coetzee <br> (b. 1940) || South Africa / Australia || English || Novel, essay, translation || |- | 1989 || 75px || Ernesto Sabato <br> (1911–2011) || Argentina || Spanish || Novel, essay || |- | 1991 || 75px || Zbigniew Herbert <br> (1924–1998) || Poland || Polish || Poetry, essay, drama || |- | 1993 || 75px || Stefan Heym <br> (1913–2001) || Germany || German / English || Novel, short story, autobiography, essay || |- | 1995 || 75px || Mario Vargas Llosa <br> (1936–2025) || Peru / Spain || Spanish || Novel, short story, essay, drama, memoirs || |- | 1997 || 75px || Jorge Semprún <br> (1923–2011) || Spain || French / Spanish || Novel, essay || |- | 1999 || 75px || Don DeLillo <br> (b. 1936) || United States || English || Novel, short story, drama, screenplay, essay || |- | 2001 || 75px || Susan Sontag <br> (1933–2004) || United States || English || Short story, novel, drama, essay || |- | 2003 || 75px || Arthur Miller <br> (1915–2005) || United States || English || Drama, screenplay, essay || |- | 2005 || 75px || António Lobo Antunes <br> (1942–2026) || Portugal || Portuguese || Novel || |- | 2007 || 75px || Leszek Kołakowski <br> (1927–2009) || Poland || Polish || Philosophy, history || |- | 2009 || 75px || Haruki Murakami <br> (b. 1949) || Japan || Japanese || Novel, short story || |- | 2011 || 75px || Ian McEwan <br> (b. 1948) || United Kingdom || English || Novel, short story, drama, screenplay ||<ref name="y2011-03-05">{{cite news |url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4035827,00.html|title=Israel boycotters target authors, artists|date=5 March 2011|work=Ynetnews|agency=Associated Press|access-date=23 March 2011}}</ref> |- | 2013 || 75px || Antonio Muñoz Molina <br> (b. 1956) || Spain || Spanish || Novel ||<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.jta.org/news/article/2013/01/09/3116431/spanish-author-antonio-munoz-molina-to-receive-jerusalem-prize |title=Spanish author Antonio Munoz Molina to receive Jerusalem Prize at book fair |work=JTA |date=9 January 2013 |access-date=9 January 2013 |archive-date=13 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130113001507/http://www.jta.org/news/article/2013/01/09/3116431/spanish-author-antonio-munoz-molina-to-receive-jerusalem-prize |url-status=dead }}</ref> |- | 2015 || 75px || Ismail Kadare <br> (1936–2024) || Albania || Albanian|| Novel, short story, poetry, essay, drama, screenplay ||<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Times of Israel|url=http://www.timesofisrael.com/albanian-writer-to-receive-jerusalem-prize/|title=Albanian writer to receive Jerusalem Prize|first=Rebecca|last=Wojno|date=15 January 2015}}</ref> |- | 2017 || 75px || Karl Ove Knausgaard <br> (b. 1968) || Norway || Norwegian|| Novel, autobiography ||<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=Haaretz|url=https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.792494|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170528204708/http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.792494|url-status=dead|archive-date=28 May 2017|title=Karl Ove Knausgaard Named 2017 Laureate for Jerusalem Prize in Literature |first=Gili|last=Izikovich|date=28 May 2017}}</ref> |- | 2019 || 75px || Joyce Carol Oates <br> (b. 1938) || United States || English|| Novel, short story, drama, essay, memoirs, poetry || |- | 2021 || 75px || Julian Barnes <br> (b. 1946) || United Kingdom || English || Novel, essay, memoirs, short story ||<ref>{{cite web|url=https://locusmag.com/2021/05/barnes-wins-jerusalem-prize/#:~:text=Julian%20Barnes%20has%20won%20the,online%20Jerusalem%20International%20Book%20Forum.|title=Barnes Wins Jerusalem Prize|website=Locus Online|access-date=25 May 2021|date=4 May 2021}}</ref> |- |2025 |frameless|102x102px |Michel Houellebecq (b. 1956) |France |French |novel, poetry, essay |<ref>{{Cite web |title=2025 Winner |url=https://www.jbookforum.com/jerusalem-prize-winner/ |access-date=2025-04-10 |website=The Jerusalem International Book Forum |language=en}}</ref> |}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[https://www.jbookforum.com/jerusalem-prize-winner/ Jerusalem Prize] at the Jerusalem International Book Forum
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