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).