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    Etgar Keret

    Born in Tel Aviv in 1967, Etgar Keret is a lead­ing voice in Israeli lit­er­a­ture and cin­e­ma. His five best­selling sto­ry col­lec­tions have been trans­lat­ed into 46 lan­guages. His writ­ing has been pub­lished in The New York Times, Le Monde, The Guardian, The New York­er, The Paris Review, and Esquire. He has also writ­ten a num­ber of screen­plays, and Jel­ly­fish, his first film as a direc­tor along­side his wife Shi­ra Gef­fen, won the Caméra d’Or prize for the best first fea­ture at Cannes in 2007. Keret and Gef­fen’s mini-series ​“The Mid­dle­man” (2019) won the best screen­play award at La Rochelle fic­tion TV fes­ti­val in France. In 2010 Keret was award­ed the Cheva­lier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Let­tres, and in 2016 he won the Bronf­man Prize. His lat­est col­lec­tion, Fly Already won the most pres­ti­gious lit­er­ary award in Israel- the Sapir prize (2018). 

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    Auto­cor­rect
    Etgar Keret; Jessica Cohen and Sondra Silverston, trans.
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    Fly Already
    Etgar Keret
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    Non­fic­tion
    The Sev­en Good Years
    Etgar Keret; Silverston, Shlesinger, Cohen, and Berris, trans.
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    The Bus Dri­ver Who Want­ed to Be God & Oth­er Stories
    Etgar Keret
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    Tel Aviv Noir
    Assaf Gavron
    Etgar Keret
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    Fic­tion
    Sud­den­ly, a Knock at the Door
    Etgar Keret; Nathan Englander, Miriam Shlesinger, Son­dra Sil­ver­ston, trans.
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    Kneller’s Hap­py Campers
    Etgar Keret
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    The Girl on the Fridge
    Etgar Keret; Miriam Shlesinger and Son­dra Sil­ver­ston, trans.
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    Etgar Keret, Jes­si­ca Cohen, Son­dra Silverston
    June 16, 2025
    Essay

    Ten Rules for Writers

    Etgar Keret
    April 27, 2020
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    30 Days, 30 Authors: Etgar Keret

    Cel­e­brate Jew­ish Book Month with #30days30authors! In hon­or of the 90th anniver­sary of Fan­ny Gold­stein’s trib­ute to Jew­ish books in the West End’s branch of the Boston…
    Etgar Keret
    November 6, 2015
    Interview

    Inter­view: Etgar Keret

    by Bec­ca KantorIsraeli author Etgar Keret is inter­na­tion­al­ly known for his short sto­ries, graph­ic nov­els, and screen­plays. His lat­est book, The Sev­en Good Years, is his…
    Bec­ca Kantor
    June 24, 2015
    Interview

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    by Beth KissileffThe anthol­o­gy Tel Aviv Noir is the newest in a series of noir crime books pub­lished by Akashic set in cities all over the world: Del­hi, Venice, Mex­i­co…
    Beth Kissileff
    October 27, 2014

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