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Jerusalem Prize recipients

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Jorge Luis Borges
Argentine writer, essayist, poet and translator (1899–1986)
Bertrand Russell
British philosopher and logician (1872–1970)
Simone de Beauvoir
French philosopher, social theorist and activist (1908–1986)
Mario Vargas Llosa
Peruvian, Spanish and Dominican novelist and writer (1936–2025)
Haruki Murakami
Japanese writer (born 1949)
Octavio Paz
Mexican writer, poet an diplomat (1914–1998)
J. M. Coetzee
South African and Australian writer and scholar (born 1940)
Milan Kundera
Franco-Czechoslovak poet and novelist (1929—2023)
Arthur Miller
American playwright and essayist (1915–2005)
Graham Greene
British writer, playwright and literary critic (1904–1991)
V. S. Naipaul
Trinidadian-British writer (1932–2018)
Eugène Ionesco
Romanian-French playwright (1909–1994)
Susan Sontag
American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist (1933–2004)
Isaiah Berlin
Russo-British-Latvian Jewish social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas (1909–1997)
Max Frisch
Swiss playwrighter and novelist (1911–1991)
Ernesto Sabato
Argentine writer, painter and physicist (1911-2011)
Ian McEwan
British author (born 1948)
Joyce Carol Oates
American author (born 1938)
Don DeLillo
American novelist, playwright and essayist (born 1936)
Leszek Kołakowski
Philosopher, historian of ideas (1927–2009)
Jorge Semprún
Spanish-French writer (1923-2011)
António Lobo Antunes
Portuguese writer (1942-2026)
Ignazio Silone
Italian writer and politician (1900-1978)
Zbigniew Herbert
Polish writer and poet (1924–1998)
Stefan Heym
German writer (1913-2001)
Antonio Muñoz Molina
Spanish writer (born 1956)
Jerusalem Prize
literature award of the City of Jerusalem
André Schwarz-Bart
French writer (1928–2006)
Naomi Gal
Israeli writer