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Etgar Keret is a globally celebrated author of stories and memoirs that expose the absurdity of daily life in our modern world, and through this often unexpected and very funny lens remind us that things could and ought to be better. His last short-story collection, Fly Already (2019), has been rewarded with the 2019 National Jewish Book Award. He also won in 2007 the Camera d'Or at Cannes for the film Jellyfish (2007). Adumbrating the strangeness of our shared existence in comical, Kafkaesque and heart-shattering sentences, Keret’s unforgettable stories stubbornly make us see that things should be otherwise and in spite of historical and political roadblocks can become better.