Jerusalem Prize

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The Jerusalem Prize for the Freedom of the Individual in Society is a biennial literary award given to writers whose work has dealt with themes of human freedom, society, politics, and government. It is awarded at the Jerusalem International Book Fair, and the recipient usually delivers an address when accepting the award.

Following is a list of past winners of the prize:

[edit] List of Laureates

Year	Name	Nationality	Language(s)
1963	Bertrand Russell	United Kingdom	(English)
1965	Max Frisch	Switzerland	(German)
1967	André Schwarz-Bart	France	(French)
1969	Ignazio Silone	Italy	(Italian)
1971	Jorge Luis Borges	Argentina	(Spanish)
1973	Eugène Ionesco	Romania /  France	(French)
1975	Simone de Beauvoir	France	(French)
1977	Octavio Paz	Mexico	(Spanish)
1979	Isaiah Berlin	Russian Empire /  United Kingdom	(English)
1981	Graham Greene	United Kingdom	(English)
1983	V. S. Naipaul	Trinidad and Tobago /  United Kingdom	(English)
1985	Milan Kundera	Czechoslovakia /  France	(Czech) / (French)
1987	J. M. Coetzee	South Africa	(English)
1989	Ernesto Sabato	Argentina	(Spanish)
1991	Zbigniew Herbert	Poland	(Polish)
1993	Stefan Heym	Germany	(German) / (English)
1995	Mario Vargas Llosa	Peru	(Spanish)
1997	Jorge Semprún	Spain	(Spanish)
1999	Don DeLillo	United States	(English)
2001	Susan Sontag	United States	(English)
2003	Arthur Miller	United States	(English)
2005	António Lobo Antunes	Portugal	(Portuguese)
2007	Leszek Kołakowski	Poland	(Polish)
2009	Haruki Murakami	Japan	(Japanese)

[edit] External links

• Jerusalem Book Fair

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