Awards and Honours
- In 1976, Oz was awarded the Brenner Prize.
- In 1983, he was awarded the Bernstein Prize (original Hebrew novel category), for A Perfect Peace.
- In 1984, he received the Officier des Arts et Lettres in France.
- In 1986, he was a co-recipient (jointly with Yitzhak Auerbuch-Orpaz) of the Bialik Prize for literature.
- In 1988, he received the French Prix Femina Etranger.
- In 1992, he was awarded the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade.
- In 1997, President Jacques Chirac presented him with the Legion of Honour.
- In 1998, he was awarded the Israel Prize, for literature.
- In 2004, the Welt-Literaturpreis from the German newspaper Die Welt
- In 2004, he was awarded the Ovid Prize from the city of Neptun, Romania
- In 2005, he was awarded the Goethe Prize from the city of Frankfurt, Germany for his life's work, a prize which was awarded in the past to the likes of Sigmund Freud and Thomas Mann.
- In 2005, he received the JQ Wingate Prize (nonfiction) for A Tale of Love and Darkness
- In 2006, he received the Jerusalem-Agnon Prize.
- In 2006, he received the Corine Prize (Germany).
- In 2007, he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Award in Literature (Spain).
- In 2007, his book "A Tale of Love and Darkness" was nominated one of the ten most important books since the creation of the State of Israel.
- In 2008, he received the German President's High Honor Award.
- In 2008, he was awarded the Primo Levi Prize (Italy).
- In 2008, he received the Heinrich Heine Prize of Düsseldorf, Germany.
- In 2008, he received an honorary degree from the University of Antwerp.
- In 2008, he also received Tel Aviv University's Dan David Prize ("Past Category"), jointly with Atom Egoyan and Tom Stoppard, for "Creative Rendering of the Past".
- In 2010, he received the honorary fellowship from the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.
Oz has been considered in recent years to be a potential candidate to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.
In 2005, he was voted the 41st-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.
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