Etgar Keret

Etgar Keret

Born in Ramat Gan in 1967, Etgar Keret is the most popular writer among Israel’s young generation. His work has been published in numerous magazines, including in The New York Times, Le Monde, The New Yorker, The Guardian, The Paris Review and Zoetrope. His stories have inspired more than 60 short movies. Keret has received the Book Publishers Association’s Platinum Prize several times, the Prime Minister’s Prize for Literature (1996), the Minister of Culture’s Cinema Prize, the Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize (2008), the St. Petersburg Public Library’s Foreign Favorite Author Award (2010), and the Neuman Prize (2012). In 2007, Keret and Shira Geffen won the Cannes Film Festival’s Camera d’Or Award for their movie Jellyfish, and the Best Director Award of the French Artists and Writers’ Guild. In 2010, Keret was awarded the prestigious French Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres decoration. His books have been published in 36 languages in 39 countries. His book, The Seven Good Years: A Memoir, was selected by The Guardian as one of 2015 best biography and memoir books. Keret lives in Tel Aviv and teaches at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.