The Jerusalem International Book Forum (JIBF; Hebrew: פורום הספר הבינלאומי בירושלים), previously known as the Jerusalem International Book Fair, is a business fair and literary festival co-founded by Asher Weill in 1963.[1] It takes place in Jerusalem every second year, and hosts the awarding of the Jerusalem Prize.
The Fair was annually held in Jerusalem's International Convention Center (Binyanei Hauma) from 1963 until 2015. Since 2015 it is spread across a number of cultural institutions supported by the Jerusalem Foundation, such as Mishkenot Sha'ananim, the Jerusalem Cinematheque and Khan Theatre.[2]
In 2019, the name of the event was changed from the Jerusalem International Book Fair to the Jerusalem International Book Forum.[3]
The JIBF hosts the award of the Jerusalem Prize[4] to a writer whose work best expresses and promotes the idea of the freedom of the individual in society. The Jerusalem Prize has in fact been awarded to five writers who afterwards received the Nobel Prize for literature. It was awarded to the American playwright Arthur Miller in 2003 [5] and to the British writer Ian McEwan in 2011.[6]
