Etgar Keret was born in Ramat Gan in 1967. His writing has been published in The New Yorker, Zoetrope and the Paris Review. His books has been translated into 37 languages. In 2007, Keret and Shira Geffen won the Cannes Film Festival's "Camera d'Or" Award for their movie Jellyfish. In 2010 Keret received the Chevalier Medallion of France'sOrdre des Arts et des Lettres. The Seven Good Years was published by Riverhead Books in spring 2015.
