Etgar Keret

Etgar Keret was born in Ramat Gan and now lives in Tel Aviv. A recipient of the French Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, the Charles Bronfman Prize, and the Cam�ra d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, he is the author of the memoir The Seven Good Years and story collections including The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God . His work has been translated into forty-five languages and has appeared in The New Yorker , The Wall Street Journal , Wired , The Paris Review , and The New York Times , among...See more

Etgar Keret was born in Ramat Gan and now lives in Tel Aviv. A recipient of the French Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, the Charles Bronfman Prize, and the Cam�ra d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, he is the author of the memoir The Seven Good Years and story collections including The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God . His work has been translated into forty-five languages and has appeared in The New Yorker , The Wall Street Journal , Wired , The Paris Review , and The New York Times , among many other publications, and on This American Life , where he is a regular contributor. See less