Sami Michael - Awards and Citations

Awards and Citations

• 1976 (and 1990) – Zeev Prize
• 1978 – Kogel Prize for fine literature
• 1981 – Prime Minister Prize
• 1981 – Petach-Tikva Prize for fine literature
• 1990 – Prize of the cylinder, Ministry of Education and culture and fund of culture America Israel, Omanut La-Am
• 1992 – Hans Christian Andersen Award – International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY), Berlin
• 1993 – Victoria selected as novel of the year in Israeli Radio, Kol Israel
• 1993 – Am Oved Prize for Victoria
• 1993 – ACUM Prize for Victoria (1993)
• 1993 – Wizo Prize for Victoria (Paris)
• 1994 – Israeli Literature prize (by Ministry of Education, Science and Art)
• 1996 – Honor prize (Berlin)
• 1998 – International Rotary prize
• 1999 – Joseph Avileah Prize
• 2001 – special prize by Society for International Development (SID), promoted by United Nations and Italian Association for the Promotion of Peace in the Middle East (AISI), Italy
• 2002 – Awarded Key to the City, Haifa
• 2004 – Brenner Prize
• 2005 – President and Hebrew University Prize
• 2005 – Honorary of Beit Hagefen Arab-Jewish Center
• 2007 – Wizo Prize (Italy)
• 2007 – EMET Prize for Arts, Science and Culture
• 2008 – Gilboa Award for Tolerance and Coexistence

• 2012 - ACUM Lifetime Achievement Award for literature - "The Prize is granted for a long writing career that has spanned many years. Sami Michael has enriched the Hebrew literature in his unique, ground breaking work whose influence is far wider than just literature."
• 2012 - Ometz Decoration

In 2005, he was voted the 131st-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.