Etgar Keret is a satiric novelist, director, and screenwriter, born in Ramat Gan. His second book, Gaguai leKising’er (Missing Kissinger), was published in 1994, and was a bestseller. Keret has written books for children as well as comic-style books. He also has directed and written plays and satire for television. He won the Prime Minister’s Prize for Literature for 1996, and in 2007, he received the Cannes Film Festival’s Camera d’Or Award for the feature-length film Meduzot (Jellyfish), which he co-directed with his wife, Shira Geffen.
Twelve-year old Ivan Demitrov, a fourth-grade student in the Bulgarian school, was scolded by his Bulgarian teacher for not sitting still in school on Friday, the tenth of this month. After playing in…
Take me in under your wing
and be unto me mother and sister
and let your breast be my head’s rest,
home of my lonely prayers.
At the hour of mercy, at sunset,
list and I’ll reveal my sorrow’s root…