Etgar Keret
Etgar Keret is an Israeli writer whose award-winning short story collections include Pipelines, Gaza Blues (with Samir El Youssef), The Bus Driver Who Thought He Was God, The Nimrod Flip-Out, and Missing Kissinger. He is the author of three graphic novels, several award-winning scripts for TV, and the novella Kneller’s Happy Campers, which was adapted by director Goran Dukic into a feature-length film Wristcutters: A Love Story starring Patrick Fugit and Tom Waits. His fiction has been translated into sixteen languages and has been the basis for more than 40 short films.