We are pleased to invite you to a talk by Israeli author and filmmaker Etgar Keret entitled “The Real and the Imagined.”
| Etgar Keret, born in Tel Aviv in 1967, is the most popular writer among Israels young generation and has also received international acclaim. His writing has been published in The New York Times, Le Monde, The Guardian, The Paris Review and Zoetrope. Over 40 short movies have been based on his stories, one of which won the American MTV Prize. His feature film Wristcutters (2006) also won several international awards, and $ 9.99, based on a number of his short stories, was released to critical acclaim in 2009. At present, Keret lectures at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He has received the Book Publishers Associations Platinum Prize several times, the Prime Ministers Prize, the Ministry of Cultures Cinema Prize, the Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize (UK, 2008) and the St Petersburg Public Librarys Foreign Favorite Award (2010); he was also a finalist for the prestigious Frank OConnor Short Story Collection Prize (2007). In 2007, Keret and Shira Gefen won the Cannes Film Festivals “Camera dOr” Award for their movie Jellyfish, and Best Director Award of the French Artists and Writers Guild. In 2010, Keret was honored in France with the decoration of Chevalier de lOrdre des Arts et des Lettres. His books have been published abroad in 31 languages in 35 countries. |
| Etgar Keret’s talk:“The Real and the Imagined”
Thursday, November 15, 2012 3:30 PM – 4:00 PM Newman Conference Center, Room 750 The Newman Conference Center Library and Technology Building 55 Lexington Avenue, 7th Floor Refreshments will be served. This event is free and open to the public. For inquiries or to make reservations please email [email protected]. This event is sponsored by the Harman Writer-In-Residence Program, the Jewish Studies Center and Hillel at Baruch College.
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