Etgar Keret (Hebrew: אתגר קרת , born August 20, 1967) is an Israeli writer known for his short stories, graphic novels, and scriptwriting for film and television. Read full biography of Etgar Keret →
I tried once in my life to write a novel. I had written something like 80 pages of it when my laptop got stolen. When I told people this, they acted... →
Being ambivalent doesn't mean that you're a relevatist, that anything goes; it just means that you show the complexity of life. Life is... →
When I write a story, I have no idea what I'm doing. All I know is that I want to share something with my readers. The whole idea of writing is... →
The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself.
When I say a spoken Hebrew sentence, half of it is like the King James Bible and half of it is a hip-hop lyric. It has a roller-coaster effect.
I write in a slangy colloquial speech that has not been common in the Israeli tradition of writing, and that is one of the things that gets lost a... →
In Israel, there is this reduction of the political discourse to something that is very limited. It's as if you have that pitch that only dogs... →
Sometimes, when you are in a really constrained situation, it makes you more focused about what you want to say and where you're heading. The... →
Generally, all my life, I have had strong friction with life - I was a problematic soldier, I was kicked out of the army, I was in fights. There was... →
My stories are very compact. I want them to say the most complex things in the simplest way.
I have to admit that talking authoritatively about my students' stories can make me feel, at times, like an astronaut who has just landed on a... →
Before I started to make films, I didn't give much thought to the way the characters were physically positioned in the story world.
I always have a story in my head that needs to be written, or at least I think I do. But I usually can't find the time to write it.
Etgar Keret (Hebrew: אתגר קרת , born August 20, 1967) is an Israeli writer known for his short stories, graphic novels, and scriptwriting for film and television.