Etgar Keret ( he, אתגר קרת, born August 20, 1967) is an Israeli writer known for his

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s, and scriptwriting for film and television.

Personal life

Keret was born in

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, Israel in 1967. He is a third child to parents who survived the

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. Both of his parents are from

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. He studied at Ohel Shem high school, and at the Adi Lautman Interdisciplinary Programme for Outstanding Students of

Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv University (TAU) ( he, אוּנִיבֶרְסִיטַת תֵּל אָבִיב, ''Universitat Tel Aviv'') is a public research university in Tel Aviv, Israel. With over 30,000 students, it is the largest university in the country. Locate ...

. He lives in

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with his wife,

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, and their son, Lev. He is a lecturer at

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) ( he, אוניברסיטת בן-גוריון בנגב, ''Universitat Ben-Guriyon baNegev'') is a public research university in Beersheba, Israel. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev has five campuses: the ...

in Beer Sheva, and at

. He holds dual Israeli and Polish citizenship.

Literary career

Keret's first published work was ''Pipelines'' (, ''Tzinorot'', 1992), a collection of short stories which was largely ignored when it came out. His second book, '' Missing Kissinger'' (, ''Ga'agu'ai le-Kissinger'', 1994), a collection of fifty very short stories, caught the attention of the general public. The short story "Siren", which deals with the paradoxes of modern Israeli society, is included in the curriculum for the Israeli

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exam in literature. Keret has co-authored several comic books, among them ''Nobody Said It Was Going to Be Fun'' (, ''Lo banu leihanot'', 1996) with

Rutu Modan Rutu Modan ( he, רותו מודן, born 1966) is an Israeli illustrator and comic book artist. She is co-founder of the Israeli comics group Actus Tragicus and published the graphic novels ''Exit Wounds'' (2007) and '' The Property'' (2013). Bi ...

and ''Streets of Fury'' (סמטאות הזעם, ''Simtaot Haza'am'', 1997) with Asaf Hanuka. In 1999, five of his stories were translated into

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, and adapted into "graphic novellas" under the joint title ''Jetlag''. The illustrators were the five members of the Actus Tragicus collective. In 1998, Keret published ''Kneller's Happy Campers'' (, ''Hakaytana Shel Kneller''), a collection of short stories. The title story, the longest in the collection, follows a young man who commits suicide and goes on a quest for love in the afterlife. It appears in the English language collection of Keret's stories ''The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God & Other Stories'' (2004) and was adapted into the graphic novel ''Pizzeria Kamikaze'' (2006), with illustrations by Asaf Hanuka. Keret's latest short story collections are ''Anihu'' (, literally ''I-am-him'', 2002; translated into English as ''Cheap Moon'', after one of the other stories in the collection) and ''Pitom Defikah Ba-delet'' (, translated into English as ''Suddenly a Knock at the Door''). Keret also wrote a children's book ''Dad Runs Away with the Circus'' (2004), illustrated by Rutu Modan. Keret publishes some of his works on the Hebrew-language web site "Bimah Hadashah" (New Stage). His 2019 book published in English as ''Fly Already'' (, literally ''Glitch at the Edge of the Galaxy'') won Israel’s prestigious

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in Literature. The prize includes a paid translation of the winning book into any language of the author’s choosing, and Keret gained some attention for selecting

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. This was the first time an author had chosen that language in the prize’s 20-year histor

Other media

Keret has worked in Israeli television and film, including three seasons as a writer for the popular sketch show ''The Cameri Quintet.'' He also wrote the story for the 2001 TV movie ''Aball'e'' starring

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. In 2006, '' Wristcutters: A Love Story'', a dark comedy/love story based on Keret's novella ''Kneller's Happy Campers'', premiered at the

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. The story was adapted by director

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into a film starring

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and

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. Etgar and his wife Shira directed the 2007 film ''

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'', based on a story written by Shira. '' $9.99'', a

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animated feature film, was released in 2009. Written by Keret and directed by

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, it is an Israeli/Australian co-production featuring the voices of

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and other leading Australian actors. In 2010 a short feature film based on Keret's story was released. ''An Exclusive'' novella was adapted and directed by the young Polish director

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. The film, also known as '' Wyłączność'' (An Exclusive), was presented at the

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2010 in the Short Film Corner section. Keret's work is frequently featured on the

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program ''

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'', which has presented readings of eight of his stories. In October 2011 the public radio show ''

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'' devoted an entire show to live readings of Keret's stories, including “Suddenly a Knock at the Door,” “Halibut," “Lieland”, and “Fatso.” Keret himself introduced several of the stories. In August 2012, the short film ''Glue'' based on Etgar Keret's short story "Crazy Glue", participated in the

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. In May 2013, the short film ''LieLand'', adapted and directed by Silvia Grossmann, a Brazilian/American filmmaker, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2017, Keret's short story ''Parallel Universes'' was adapted into a short film by British-Israeli actor Liran Nathan. The film was screened at various international film festivals including the

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and the British Urban Film Festival.

Writing style

Keret's writing style is lean, using everyday language, slang, and dialect. His work has influenced many writers of his generation, as well as bringing a renewed surge in popularity for the short story form in Israel in the second half of the 1990s. According to linguist

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, Etgar Keret was criticized by linguist Menahem Zevi Kaddari "for using a 'thin language' – as opposed to

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". Zuckermann defends Keret and argues that "Kaddari compares Keret to Agnon as if they wrote in two different registers of the same language" whereas "Keret is, in fact, writing in a different language. Whilst Agnon attempts to write in (Mishnaic) Hebrew, which is obviously not his mother tongue (

), Keret writes authentically in his native Israeli." Zuckermann provides an example: when Agnon wrote, in 1944, אשתו מתה עליו ''ishtó méta alàv'', literally "his wife died/dies on him", he meant "he became a widower". When Keret says so, he means "his wife loves him very much".

Awards

Keret has received the Prime Minister's award for literature, as well as the Ministry of Culture's Cinema Prize. In 2006 he was chosen as an outstanding artist of the prestigious Israel Cultural Excellence Foundation. In 1993 he won the first prize in the Alternative Theater Festival in

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for ''Entebbe: A Musical'', which he wrote with Jonathan Bar Giora. The short film ''Malka Lev Adom'' (''Skin Deep'', 1996), which Keret wrote and directed with Ran Tal, won an Israel Film Academy award and first place in the Munich International Festival of Film Schools. The film ''

'', a joint venture for Keret and his wife received the

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prize at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. ''Missing Kissinger'' won the 2008

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. Keret was on the jury for the 2010

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. In 2010, Keret received the Chevalier (Knight) Medallion of France's

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. He has received the Charles Bronfman Prize for 2016. Keret received the 2018

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for his short-story collection ''Takalah be-Katzeh ha-Galaksiya'' (Hebrew title: תקלה בקצה הגלקסיה, "A Glitch at the Edge of the Galaxy") whose English translation, ''Fly Already'', won the 2019

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translation in 2020.

Inspirations

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Criticism

A review of ''Missing Kissinger'' by Todd McEwen describes Etgar Keret's locale as that of "male confusion, loneliness, blundering, bellowing and, above all, stasis. His narrator is trapped in an angry masculine wistfulness which is awful to behold in its masturbatory disconnection from the world's real possibilities and pleasures." Keret is "not much of a stylist - you get the impression that he throws three or four of these stories off on the bus to work every morning," and his "wild, blackly inventive pieces...might have been dreamed up by a mad scientist rather than a writer."

Works

Short fiction

;Collections * ''The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God & Other Stories'', New York: Toby Press, 2004, (paperback). ::Includes "Kneller's Happy Campers" and other stories. * ''Gaza Blues'' with

Samir El-Youssef Samir El-Youssef ( ar, سمير اليوسف) (born 1965) is a Palestinian-British writer and critic, who was born in Rashidieh, a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon, where he lived until he was ten, before moving to Sidon. El-Youssef's ...

, London: David Paul, 2004, . :: 15 short stories by Keret and a novella by El-Youssef. * ''The Nimrod Flipout'', Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006, (paperback). ::Selections from Keret's four short-story collections. * ''Missing Kissinge''r, Vintage Books, 2008, (paperback). * ''The Girl On The Fridge'', Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008, (paperback). ::Includes "Crazy Glue" and other short stories from Keret's first collections. * ''Four Stories'', Syracuse University Press, 2010, (paperback). *''A Moonless Night'' (Am Oved Publishers Ltdd., 2010) with Shira Geffen and

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* ''Suddenly, a Knock on the Door'', Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012, (paperback). * ''Fly Already'', Granta Books, 2019, ;Stories

Comics

*''Jetlag'', Tel Aviv, Actus Tragicus, 1998; Top Shelf Productions, 1999, . *''Pizzeria Kamikaze'', illustrated by Asaf Hanuka,

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, 2005, .

Children's books

*''Dad Runs Away With The Circus'', Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, 2004, .

Memoirs

Notes

References

External links

Etgar Keret
- official website *

Biography

- bio and list of works
Israel Cultural Excellence Foundation
- bio and press reviews

Interviews

Meakin Armstrong interviews Etgar Keret
in

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A Conversation With Etgar Keret by George Saunders
at the 2007

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A Conversation With Etgar Keret by George Saunders
at the 2007

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Interview
CBC (May 2008)
Interview
'' Tikkun magazine'' (September/October 2005).
Conversation with Etgar Keret
Pandalous
WWB Interviews Etgar Keret on Tradition, Translation, and Alien Toasters

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Suddenly: An Interview with Etgar Keret

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(Summer 2012)

Works

"Second Chance"
- a short story, ''

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'' (January 2010)
"The Nimrod Flip Out"
- a short story, '' Zoetrope: All-Story'' (Summer 2004)
"One Hundred Percent"
- a short story, ''

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'' (March 2007)
Etgar Keret reads "Hat Trick"
from ''The Girl on the Fridge'',

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(2008)
Myth Milk by: Etgar Keret
from ''The Girl on the Fridge'',

"An Exclusive"
- a short story, ''LA Weekly'' (September 2007)
"Freeze"
- a short story, ''LA Weekly'' (January 2008)
"Loquat"
- a short story, ''LA Weekly'' (April 2008)
"Snot"
- a short story, ''Pandalous'' (September 2009)
Etgar Keret at Bamah Hadashah
- selected works (in Hebrew)
Magic & childhood
- Three tales of innocence from Israel

Articles and reviews

Stupor in Our Times
- article on Israeli politics by Keret, originally published in ''

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The Incursion of Politics into the Private Sphere
Article by Lewis Gropp about Keret's joint project with Samir El-Youssef, Qantara.de (August 2006)
Review of The Nimrod Flipout
- By Michael Lukas, ''Tikkun magazine''
Translating Monsters into Songbirds: the Stories of Etgar Keret
- By James Warner, Identity Theory

Personal life

Literary career

Other media

Writing style

Awards

Inspirations

Criticism

Works

Short fiction

Comics

Children's books

Memoirs

See also

Notes

References

External links

Biography

Interviews

Works

Articles and reviews

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