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Etgar Keret

Etgar Keret, who was born in Tel Aviv in 1967, has a cult following in Israel. His two short story collections have been best-sellers, and have inspired 40 short films. His movie Skin Deep won the Israeli Oscar. He writes comedy for Israeli television, a regular comic strip, as well as a column in a Jerusalem weekly newspaper.

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Shooting Clint

In the dead-pan humour of this story by a young Israeli cult author, published here in English for the first time, the violence of the Arab–Israeli war is there, but not there.