Keret also wrote: “Kneller’s Happy Campers”, (1998) a collection of short stories “The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God & Other Stories” (2004) which was adapted into the graphic novel Pizzeria Kamikaze (2006), with illustrations by Asaf Hanuka, Anihu, 2002, translated into English as Cheap Moon, and “Suddenly a Knock at the Door”. 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. 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.
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