Etgar Keret

Etgar Keret (born 1967 ) is an Israeli writer residing in Tel Aviv . His main creative output is short stories , as well as writing for television. Some say his lean, cool writing is characteristic of a whole generation of Israeli writers, especially the literature created in Israel during the second half of the 1990s. The first books that he published were Pipelines and Gaza Blues . After them he published several more books, among them a comic book Nobody Said It Was Going to Be Fun in collaboration with Rutu Modan. He also wrote for the Israeli television show The Cameri Quintet for its first three seasons. In 1993 he won first prize in the Alternative Theater Festival in Akko for Entebbe A Musical which he wrote with Jonathan Bar Giora. Keret publishes some of his works on the Hebrew-language web site "Bamah Hadashah" (New Stage) which presents a platform for new works, although he turned into a renowned writer even before the establishment of that site. The short film "Skin Deep" (Malka Lev Adom) which he wrote and directed with Ran Tal won the Israel Film Academy prize and first place in the Munich International Festival of Film Schools (1996). In Israel, Keret also won the Prime Minister's Prize for Literature and the Ministry of Culture Cinema Prize. Since 1995 , Keret lectures in the film school of Tel Aviv University . His story "Siren" which deals with the contradictions in the current Israeli situation is included in the curriculum for the national matriculation in literature.¹