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Born in Ramat Gan in 1967 Etgar Keret is a leading voice in Israeli literature and film His books have been published in over four dozen languages and his writing has appeared in The New York Times Le Monde and The New Yorker among others His awards include the Cannes Film Festivals Cam ra dOr 2007 the Charles Bronfman Prize 2016 and the prestigious Sapir Prize 2018 Over a hundred short films and several feature films have been based on his stories Keret teaches creative writing at Ben Gurion University of the Negev Since 2021 he has been publishing the weekly newsletter Alphabet Soup on Substack Born in Ramat Gan in 1967 Etgar Keret is a leading voice in Israeli literature and film His books have been published in over four dozen languages and his writing has appeared in The New York Times Le Monde and The New Yorker among others His awards include the Cannes Film Festival s Cam ra d Or 2007 the Charles Bronfman Prize 2016 and the prestigious Sapir Prize 2018 Over a hundred short films and several feature films have been based on his stories Keret teaches creative writing at Ben Gurion University of the Negev Since 2021 he has been publishing the weekly newsletter Alphabet Soup on Substack site_link.