Yehuda Amichai was an Israeli poet and author, one of the first to write in colloquial Hebrew in modern times.

The Bialik Prize is an annual literary award given by the municipality of Tel Aviv, Israel, for significant accomplishments in Hebrew literature. The prize is named in memory of Israel's national poet Hayyim Nahman Bialik. There are two separate prizes, one specifically for "Literature", which is in the field of fiction, and the other for "Jewish thought". The prize was established in January 1933, Bialik's 60th birthday.