![]() ![]() ![]() Keret has co-authored several comic books, among them Nobody Said It Was Going to Be Fun ( לא באנו ליהנות, Lo banu leihanot, 1996) with Rutu Modan and Streets of Fury (סמטאות הזעם, Simtaot Haza'am, 1997) with Asaf Hanuka. 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. His second book, Missing Kissinger ( געגועיי לקיסינג'ר, Ga'agu'ai le-Kissinger, 1994), a collection of fifty very short stories, caught the attention of the general public. Keret's first published work was Pipelines ( צינורות, Tzinorot, 1992), a collection of short stories which was largely ignored when it came out. He holds dual Israeli and Polish citizenship. He is a lecturer at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beer Sheva, and at Tel Aviv University. He lives in Tel Aviv with his wife, Shira Geffen, and their son, Lev. ![]() He studied at Ohel Shem high school, and at the Adi Lautman Interdisciplinary Programme for Outstanding Students of Tel Aviv University. He is a third child to parents who survived the Holocaust. Keret was born in Ramat Gan, Israel in 1967. ![]()
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