Episode 70: Etgar Keret and the Art of the Short Story
Naor Meningher and Eytan Weinstein
January 2, 2018
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Israeli author Etgar Keret awarded $100,000 Bronfman Prize
Jewish Journal
June 15, 2016
Israeli author Etgar Keret has been named the recipient of the 2016 Charles Bronfman Prize.
A funny — and touching — thing happened when a writer had a son
Jonathan Kirsch
June 25, 2015
Etgar Keret is an Israeli writer with an international readership.
Dance troupe Pilobolus brings collaborative vision to Malibu
Avishay Artsy
March 18, 2015
There’s no such thing as a typical Pilobolus performance. The Connecticut-based dance troupe has collaborated with cartoonists, filmmakers, puppeteers, radio producers and children’s authors to create one-of-a-kind spectacles that take dance out of the traditional realm.
In ‘Tel Aviv Noir,’ city’s underbelly gets its due
Jewish Journal
October 2, 2014
Asked by a literary magazine to name an Israeli author deserving of English translation, Etgar Keret — the Tel Aviv-based writer whose short stories have been published to worldwide acclaim — named novelist Gadi Taub.
Calendar: September 28–October 4
Laura Donney
September 24, 2013
If you thought your beautiful new spouse was cheating on you, wouldn’t you create a disguise and test her fidelity? Ferenc Molnar’s comic game of love and marriage may or may not remind you of you and yours, but with wit and deception aplenty, it’ll certainly be fun to watch. Directed by Michael Michetti. Sat. 8 p.m. Through Nov. 30. $34-$54. A Noise Within, 3352 E. Foothill Blvd., Pasadena. (626) 356-3100. anoisewithin.org.
Films: Suicide victims seek love in limbo
Susan Karlin
October 26, 2007
Despite their focus on death and suicide, Etgar Keret\’s stories keep finding new life after publication — from foreign reprints to re-imaginings as graphic novels and films. The latest of those incarnations, the award-winning independent film, \”Wristcutters: A Love Story,\” has finally landed U.S. distribution with After Dark Films\’s sister distributor, Autonomous Films, and is in limited release — opening today in Los Angeles. The debut feature film from Los Angeles-based Croatian director Goran Dukic is based on Keret\’s 1998 short story, \”Kneller\’s Happy Campers,\” a surrealist road story following three suicide victims searching limbo for a lost love.
Minimalist Keret Reads
Jessica Steinberg
April 6, 2007
Etgar Keret is coming to Los Angeles, but fear not. This brilliant young Israeli writer of his generation, a skillful satirist who seems to have a knack for expressing the emotions, thoughts and language of his peers, has not gone completely Hollywood.
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