Look at him convulse. Fluttering between life and death on the pale-blue marble floor of a swanky organic restaurant.
Born in Ramat Gan in 1967, Etgar Keret is a leading voice in Israeli literature and film. His books have been published in over four dozen languages and his writing has appeared in The New York Times, Le Monde, and The New Yorker, among others. His awards include the Cannes Film Festival’s Caméra d’Or (2007), the Charles Bronfman Prize (2016), and the prestigious Sapir Prize (2018). Over a hundred short films and several feature films have been based on his stories. Keret teaches creative writing at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Since 2021, he has been publishing the weekly newsletter Alphabet Soup on Substack.
Jessica Cohen translates contemporary Hebrew literature by authors including David Grossman (with whom she shared the International Booker Prize in 2017), Etgar Keret, Amos Oz, and Maya Arad. Her work has been supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts grant.
