David Grossman - Awards and Honors

Awards and Honors

• In 1984, Grossman won the Prime Minister's Prize for Creative Work;
• In 1985 and again in 1993, he was awarded the Bernstein Prize (original Hebrew novel category);
• In 2001, he was award the Sapir Prize for Someone to Run With;
• In 2004, he was award the JQ Wingate Prize (fiction) for Someone to Run With;
• In 2004, he was awarded the Italian prize Premio Flaiano;
• In 2004, he was a co-recipient (jointly with Haya Shenhav and Ephraim Sidon) of the Bialik Prize for literature;
• In 2007, he was awarded the Emet Prize;
• In 2007, he received the Ischia International Journalism Award;
• On February 2, 2007, he was awarded the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa by the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium;
• In 2008, he received the Geschwister-Scholl-Preis;
• In 2010, he received the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade;
• In 2011, he was award the JQ Wingate Prize for To the End of the Land.

In 2005, he was voted the 97th-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis.