Haim Gouri - Awards and Honors

Awards and Honors

• The film The 81st Blow, which he wrote, co-produced, and co-directed, was nominated for the 1974 Academy Award for Documentary Feature. It is part of a powerful Holocaust trilogy that includes The Last Sea and Flames in the Ashes.
• In 1975, Gouri was awarded the Bialik Prize for literature.
• In 1988, he was awarded the Israel Prize, for Hebrew poetry.
• In 1998, he won the Uri Zvi Grinberg award.

In 2005, he was voted the 147th-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.