Lably
Skip to content

Jerusalem Prize

Israeli literary award

  • 1 min read
  • 1 chapter

Explore on Lably

ToursExplore Lably’s 3D tours

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

More in Writers

William ShakespeareEnglish playwright and poet (1564–1616)HomerAncient Greek poetJohann Wolfgang von GoetheGerman writer and polymath (1749–1832)VoltaireFrench writer and philosopher (1694–1778)Virgil1st-century-BC Roman poetDante AlighieriItalian writer and philosopher (1265–1321)