Etgar Keret

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Etgar Keret (2005)

Etgar Keret ( Hebrew אתגר קרת; * August 20, 1967 in Ramat Gan ) is an Israeli writer and screenwriter .

Life

Keret's parents survived the Shoah . Around 1986 he did military service in the IDF . Keret works for television, produces short films and writes comics and short stories with a penchant for the absurd and surrealistic . His books are bestsellers in Israel and have been translated into 37 languages ​​in 40 countries. Together with the Palestinian author Samir El-Youssef , he published the volume Alles Gaza - shared stories in 2006 . He has published his largely autobiographical book The Seven Good Years in English and not in Hebrew because of the contentious content. Keret is married to the actress, director and children's book author Shira Geffen and has a son with her. In 2016 he was awarded the Charles Bronfman Prize, named after the Canadian entrepreneur and philanthropist Charles Bronfman .

The Keret House in Warsaw

The Keret House

The architect Jakub Szczęsny designed a house for Keret, which he fitted into a gap between two eleven-story houses in Warsaw, and which is considered to be the narrowest house in the world. The Keret House is 152 centimeters wide at its widest point, 92 centimeters at its narrowest, and has a total living space of 14.5 m². The writer moved into the house on October 19, 2012. The house is located in the Wola district where there was once an entrance to the Warsaw ghetto , through which Keret's mother smuggled bread for the family into the ghetto as a child.

Filmography (selection)

Works (selection)

  • Pizzeria Kamikaze . Roman, translated by Barbara Linner, Luchterhand, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-630-62045-0 .
  • The bus driver who wanted to be God. Stories, translated by Barbara Linner, Luchterhand, Munich 2001, ISBN 978-3-630-87089-2 .
  • Gaza blues . Short stories. Translated by Barbara Linner, Luchterhand, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-630-62025-6 .
  • Moon on sale . 33 Short Stories, translated by Barbara Linner, Luchterhand, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-630-87153-4 ; Paperback edition: btt, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-442-73499-3 .
  • Suddenly there is a knock on the door . Stories. Translated by Barbara Linner. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-10-049521-1 .
  • A moonless night (original title: Lailah beli yareaḥ , with Shira Geffen and David Polonsky, translation by Barbara Linner), Fischer KJB, Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-596-85639-8 .
  • Tel Aviv Noir (with Gadi Taub , Lavie Tidhar, Deakla Keydar, Matan Hermoni, Julia Fermentto, Gon Ben Ari, Shimon Adaf , Alex Epstein , Antonio Ungar , Gai Ad, Assaf Gavron , Silje Bekeng, Yoav Katz), edited by Etgar Keret , Assaf Gavron, Translation by Yardenne Greenspan, Akashic Books, New York 2014, ISBN 978-1-61775-154-7 . (English)
  • The seven good years: my life as father and son . Novel. Translation from English by Daniel Kehlmann . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-10-049520-4
  • Don't do it: stories . Novellas, Translation Barbara Linner, Structure, 2020, ISBN 978-3-35-103815-1

Web links

Commons : Etgar Keret  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A click on "Etgar Keret" shows the personal information (accessed on June 22, 2012)
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Rebecca Benhamou: Dictionnaire insolite de Tel Aviv . Ed .: Patrick Arfi, Vanessa Pignarre. Cosmopole, Paris 2015, ISBN 978-2-84630-093-3 , pp. 88 f .
  3. ^ Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature
  4. ^ "Honor for Etgar Keret" , juedische-allgemeine.de of June 16, 2016, accessed on July 12, 2016.
  5. ↑ Alice Bota : The Man in the Gap. His mother survived the Warsaw ghetto. Now the Israeli writer Etgar Keret is traveling back there. He gets a house - the narrowest in the world. In: Die Zeit , October 31, 2012, p. 10.
  6. ↑ gap filler. The narrowest house in the world is in Warsaw .
  7. ↑ My house in Warsaw. - the story of a return In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . No. 280. November 30, 2012, p. 21.
  8. ↑ Andreas Schoettl: My talking goldfish: bizarre mini-series at ARTE between dream and reality. Retrieved August 10, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Keret, Etgar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli author
DATE OF BIRTH 20th August 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Ramat Gan , Israel