Creator Bio
Etgar Keret
b. 1967
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.
Content by Etgar Keret
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Dad Runs Away with the Circus
Dad Runs Away with the Circus was Etgar Keret's first children's book. It was illustrated by award-winning illustrator and comic book artist Rutu Modan. The two collaborated on several projects…
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Pizzeria Kamikaze
From Etgar Keret’s graphic novel, Pizzeria Kamikaze, about a young man who commits suicide and who, in the afterlife, works in a pizzeria, where the customers are other dead people.