Etgar keret biography channel

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). 

PERSONAL:

Born August 20, 1967, in Tel Aviv, Israel; married Shira Geffen; children: one child.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Tel Aviv, Israel.

CAREER:

Author, journalist, and filmmaker. Columnist for a weekly newspaper in Jerusalem; comic remsa writer for a Tel Aviv, Israel, newspaper; comedy writer for Israeli television; lecturer at Tel Aviv University School of rulle. Writer-in-residence, University of Iowa International Writing Program, 2001; participant in Sundance Institute Feature rulle Program Screenwriters Lab, 2001. Director and actor, Meduzot, 2007. Military service: Served in the Israeli Army.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Israeli Motion Picture Academy Award for movie Skin Deep; first prize, Alternative Theatre Festival, Acre, Israel, for musical Entebbe; Yediot-Acharonot (Israeli newspaper) selection for the fifty most important books written in Hebrew, for Ga'gu'ai le-Kising'er; prize winner at several international film festivals, including first prize at

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