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Etgar Keret

エトガー・ケレット

Etgar Keret

プロフィール

性別
男性
生誕
1967-08-20 (Ramat Gan, Israel)
国籍
Israeli, Polish
言語
Hebrew
居住地歴
Tel Aviv, Israel

経歴

職業
writer, screenwriter, short story writer, graphic novelist
活動期間
1992年〜
影響を受けた人物
Kurt Vonnegut, Franz Kafka, William Faulkner, Coen brothers, Terry Gilliam

学歴

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
国: Israel
Tel Aviv University (Adi Lautman Interdisciplinary Programme)
国: Israel
Studied in the Adi Lautman interdisciplinary programme for outstanding students

受賞歴

Prime Minister's Prize for Literature
主催: Government of Israel
結果: 受賞
Ministry of Culture Cinema Prize
主催: Ministry of Culture (Israel)
結果: 受賞
Alternative Theater Festival First Prize
1993
対象作品: Entebbe: A Musical
主催: Alternative Theater Festival, Akko
結果: 受賞
Israel Film Academy Award
1996
対象作品: Malka Lev Adom (Skin Deep)
主催: Israel Film Academy
結果: 受賞
Munich International Festival of Film Schools - First Prize
1996
対象作品: Malka Lev Adom (Skin Deep)
主催: Munich International Festival of Film Schools
結果: 受賞
Camera d'Or
2007
対象作品: Jellyfish
主催: Cannes Film Festival
結果: 受賞
JQ Wingate Prize
2008
対象作品: Missing Kissinger
主催: JQ Wingate Foundation
結果: 受賞
Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Chevalier)
2010
主催: Ministry of Culture (France)
結果: 受章
Charles Bronfman Prize
2016
主催: The Charles Bronfman Prize Foundation
結果: 受賞
Sapir Prize for Literature
2018
対象作品: Takalah be-Katzeh ha-Galaksiya (Fly Already)
主催: Sapir Prize Committee
結果: 受賞
National Jewish Book Award
2019
対象作品: Fly Already
部門: フィクション
主催: Jewish Book Council
結果: 受賞

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

Pipelines (Tzinorot)

1992年 short stories

Early collection of short stories; initially received little attention.

absurdity of everyday lifehumorloneliness

Missing Kissinger

1994年 short stories (very short fiction)

A collection of very short stories that brought Keret broad attention.

black humorhuman absurdity

Kneller's Happy Campers

1998年 short stories

Includes the title story about a young man who kills himself and searches for love in the afterlife.

life and deathlovehumor and pathos
映像化・舞台化
  • [film] Wristcutters: A Love Story / Goran Dukić (2006)
  • [graphic novel] Pizzeria Kamikaze (2006)

Anihu (Cheap Moon)

2002年 short story collection

Collection of short stories, several translated into English.

familycontemporary Israeli society

Suddenly a Knock at the Door

2012年 short story collection

A collection of more recent short stories, including experimental pieces.

absurdityhumorviolence and the everyday

Fly Already (Takalah be-Katzeh ha-Galaksiya)

2019年 short story collection

Short-story collection published in English in 2019; includes the book that won the Sapir Prize.

humorexistential crisisfamily relationships
翻訳
  • Bulgarian translation (2020)
  • English translation (Fly Already)

全著作

  • Pipelines (Tzinorot)
  • Missing Kissinger
  • Kneller's Happy Campers
  • Anihu / Cheap Moon
  • Suddenly a Knock at the Door
  • Fly Already
  • The Seven Good Years: A Memoir

翻案

  • Wristcutters: A Love Story (film, 2006)
  • Jellyfish (film, 2007, Camera d'Or)
  • $9.99 (stop-motion film, 2009)
  • Pizzeria Kamikaze (graphic novel, 2006)
  • Short film Glue (based on 'Crazy Glue')

作品の翻訳

  • Bulgarian translation of Fly Already (2020)
  • Numerous works translated into English and many other languages

作風・主題

文体
concise, colloquial proseblack humorallegorical and surreal elements
頻出モチーフ
lonelinessabsurdity of everyday lifefamily historyboundaries between life and death

評価・遺産

Etgar Keret is credited with revitalizing the short story form in Israel; his work has been widely translated and adapted into films, and he is influential for combining humor and the absurd.

大衆文化への影響

  • Several short stories adapted into films/short films and screened/awarded at international film festivals

豆知識

  • When he won the Sapir Prize in 2018 he chose Yiddish as the paid translation language for the winning book, the first time an author selected that language in the prize's history.