Israel / Palestine
Etgar Keret (b. 1967).
Israeli writer of short stories, graphic novels, and scripts. "Etgar Keret was born in Ramat Gan in 1967. His writing has been published in The New Yorker, Zoetrope and the Paris Review. His books has been translated into 37 languages. In 2007, Keret and Shira Geffen won the Cannes Film Festival's "Camera d'Or" Award for their movie Jellyfish. In 2010 Keret received the Chevalier Medallion of France'sOrdre des Arts et des Lettres. The Seven Good Years was published by Riverhead Books in spring 2015." Comics
Review of Missing Kissinger
"Plastic people: Todd McEwen is alarmed by Etgar Keret's world of masculine fury and fantasy in Missing Kissinger" by Etgar Keret, trans Miriam Schlesinger and Sondra Silverston "These are 46 horror stories from Israel, though they acrobatically shape-shift from the political to the fabulous, and are outwardly comic. They amount to a worldview more frightening than their subjects (and these are scary enough: the Holocaust, sexual dysfunction, sadistic birthday-party magicians). Etgar Keret's locale is that of male confusion, loneliness, blundering, bellowing and, above all, stasis. His narrator is trapped in an angry masculine wistfulness which is awful to behold in its masturbatory disconnection from the world's real possibilities and pleasures." |
Samir El-youssef
(b. 1965. Palestine writer and critic) Sayed Kashua
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