Etgar Keret

Etgar Keret (Hebrew אתגר קרת; born August 20, 1967 in Ramat Gan ) is one of the best-known Israeli writers and screenwriters.

Life

Keret works for television, produced short films, writes books and short stories. His books are bestsellers in Israel and have been translated into nine languages. With the Palestinian author Samir El- Youssef, he published in 2006 the band Everything Gaza - shared stories.

Keret is married to the poet and children's book author Shira Geffen and has a son with her.

The Keret House in Warsaw

The architect Jakub Szczęsny designed for Keret a house which he has fitted in Warsaw in an empty lot between two eleven-storey houses, and this is the narrowest house in the world. The house is wide at its widest point 152 centimeters at the narrowest 92 centimeters and has a total area of ​​14.5 m². In mid-October 2012, the writer has the house -related. The house stands in the Wola district on the spot where formerly an entrance to the Warsaw ghetto was smuggled over the Keret's mother as a child bread for the family in the ghetto.

Filmography (selection)

Works

In German have been published:

• Pizzeria Kamikaze ( Luchterhand 2000)
• The bus driver who wanted to be God ( Luchterhand 2001)
• Gaza Blues ( Luchterhand 2002)
• Moon on special offer ( Luchterhand 2003)
• Suddenly there is a knock at the door: Stories. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-10-049521-1.