In 1999, five of his stories were translated into English, and adapted into “graphic novellas” under the joint title Jetlag.

Keret has co-authored several comic books, among them Nobody Said It Was Going to Be Fun (1996) with Rutu Modan and Streets of Fury (1997) with Asaf Hanuka. Keret and Shira Geffen won the Camera D’Or prize at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival for the film “Meduzot”. The short story “Siren”, which deals with the paradoxes of modern Israeli society, is included in the curriculum for the Israeli matriculation exam in literature. Keret’s second book, Missing Kissinger (1994), a collection of fifty very short stories, caught the attention of the general public. It's the best I can do.Israeli writer and filmmaker Etgar Keret (Ramat Gan, August 20 1967) has had his books translated into 34 languages and has achieved great local and international success. 'What do you think,' the silvery God asked the yellow priest in frustration, 'that I created all of you like this because it's what I wanted? Because I'm some kind of pervert or sadist who enjoys all this suffering? I created you like this because this is what I know. And His silvery beloved stared wide-eyed at the members of that species for hours, stared and didn’t even shed a tear. That species really did resemble Him: battered and victimized like Him. The silvery God decided to create a species in His own image so she could watch it to pass the time. She could see and hear everything, but she couldn’t say a word. The golden gods beat Him with golden clubs of sunlight and didn’t stop until they’d broken every bone in His divine body. When they were kids, God had once beaten one of them up, a short, skinny golden god who had now grown up and returned with his friends.

Once, as He was gliding among the silvery stars with his silvery beloved, a gang of golden gods attacked them. Not the cheap, glittery silver of a banker’s BMW, but a muted, matte silver. He was in a wheelchair too He had once lost a woman too. “God entered the yellow church on the disabled ramp.

פתאום דפיקה בדלת by Etgar Keret