28 Israel Prize in literature recipients

Shmuel Yosef Agnon was a Nobel Prize laureate writer and was one of the central figures of modern Hebrew fiction. In Hebrew, he is known by the acronym Shai Agnon. In English, his works are published under the name S. Y. Agnon.

Nathan Alterman was an Israeli poet, playwright, journalist, and translator. Though never holding any elected office, Alterman was highly influential in Socialist Zionist politics, both before and after the establishment of the State of Israel.

Aharon Amir was an Israeli Hebrew poet, a literary translator and a writer.

Aharon Appelfeld was an Israeli novelist and Holocaust survivor.

Hanoch Bartov was an Israeli author and journalist.

Yocheved Bat-Miriam was an Israeli poet. She is unusual among Hebrew poets in expressing nostalgia for the landscapes of the country of her birth. Yocheved migrated to British Palestine, later to be called Israel, in 1928. Her first book of poetry, Merahok was published in 1929. In 1948, her son Nahum (Zuzik) Hazaz from the writer Haim Hazaz died in the 1947–1949 Palestine war. Since then she never wrote a poem again.

Isaac Dov Berkowitz, was an Israeli author and Yiddish-Hebrew translator.

Yehuda Burla was an Israeli author.

Ya'akov Cahan or Kahan was an Israeli poet, playwright, translator, writer and Hebrew linguist.

Jacob Fichman also transliterated as Yakov Fichman, was an acclaimed Hebrew poet, essayist and literary critic.

Ida Fink was a Polish-Israeli author who wrote about the Holocaust in Polish.

Ezra Fleischer was a Romanian-Israeli Hebrew-language poet and philologist.

Leah Goldberg or Lea Goldberg was a prolific Hebrew-language poet, author, playwright, literary translator, and comparative literary researcher.

Uri Zvi Greenberg was an acclaimed Israeli poet and journalist who wrote in Yiddish and Hebrew.

Emile Shukri Habibi was an Israeli Arab writer of Arabic literature and a politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the communist parties Maki and Rakah.

Avigdor Hameiri was an Israeli author.

Yehudit Hendel was an award-winning Israeli author. She wrote novels, short stories, and non-fiction.

Abba Kovner was a Jewish Hebrew and Yiddish poet, writer and partisan leader. In the Vilna Ghetto, his manifesto was the first time that a target of the Holocaust identified the German plan to murder all Jews. His attempt to organize a ghetto uprising failed, but he fled into the forest, became a Soviet partisan, and survived the war. After the war, Kovner led a secretive organization that aimed to take revenge for the Holocaust by killing six million Germans, but he was arrested by the British before he could carry out his plan. He made aliyah in 1947. Considered one of the greatest poets of modern Israel, he received the Israel Prize in 1970.

Amos Oz was an Israeli writer, novelist, journalist, and intellectual. He was also a professor of Hebrew literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. From 1967 onwards, Oz was a prominent advocate of a two-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.

David Shimoni was an Israeli poet, writer and translator.

Avraham Shlonsky was a significant and dynamic Israeli poet and editor born in the Russian Empire.

Zalman Shneur was a prolific Yiddish and Hebrew poet and writer. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Gershon Shofman was an Israeli writer and painter.

Abraham Sutzkever was an acclaimed Yiddish poet. The New York Times wrote that Sutzkever was "the greatest poet of the Holocaust."

Reuven Tsur is professor emeritus of Hebrew literature and literary theory at Tel Aviv University. He was born in Oradea (Nagyvárad), Romania and his mother tongue is Hungarian.

Abraham B. Yehoshua is an Israeli novelist, essayist, and playwright, published as A. B. Yehoshua. The New York Times called him the "Israeli Faulkner".

Yizhar Smilansky, known by his pen name S. Yizhar, was an Israeli writer and politician.

Shlomo Zemach was an Israeli author, agriculturalist and early Zionist pioneer.