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Etgar Keret was born in Tel Aviv in 1967 and is a leading voice in Israeli literature and cinema. He has published four books of stories and novellas, four graphic novels and one feature screenplay. His books, bestsellers in Israel, have been published in twenty-six languages. His first film, Malka Red-Heart, won the Israeli 'Oscar' for best television drama, as well as acclaim at several international film festivals, and his most recent, Jellyfish, won the prestigious 2007 Camera d'Or Award, at the 60th Cannes Festival. His first collection of stories to be published in the UK was The Nimrod Flip-Out and his second collection, Missing Kissinger, was published in 2007. Keret teaches in Ben Gurion University's Hebrew Literature department.
Etgar Keret's writing hits like a bullet. Kneller's Happy Campers is fast and bizarre and full of a fearless street-punk surrealism, as though Charles Bukowski is channelling the imagination of Lewis Carroll. The darkest fun I've read in ages -- Matt Haig Keret mixes the laconic style of Raymond Carver and the insane wit of Quentin Tarantino into his own particular, melancholy combination of themes... It's not just a story about people who have taken their lives, but rather a metaphor on how the post-ideological generation is trying to live and survive in this world Spiegel There is a subtle mix of innocence and awareness, of caustic irony and tender humour that emerges from this text, as well as from its brilliant author Le Monde I think he is a brilliant writer, entirely different from any other I know. He is the voice of the next generation -- Salman Rushdie
