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Among his notable works is Kneller's Happy Campers, and he is known for short stories and graphic novels — two forms that reward economy and visual thinking.\n\nThe honors Keret has received come from several distinct national and institutional traditions. France awarded him the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres. Within Israel, he received both the Sapir Prize for Literature and the Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Literary Works, two of the more significant recognitions available to writers working in Hebrew. The Newman Prize and the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize extended that recognition into additional literary contexts.\n\nThe spread of these awards across French, Israeli, and broader literary institutions reflects the reach of Keret's work beyond any single cultural sphere. The Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Literary Works, in particular, offers a concrete measure of his standing within Hebrew literary culture — the language in which he writes and through which his work first found its audience.","Israeli literature in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries underwent considerable expansion, with writers working across languages, national borders, and multiple artistic forms. 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A happy, idiotic existence, the kind that doesn’t try to make the most of time but is satisfied with merely finding the most enjoyable way to spend it.",false,{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":40,"quote_text":41,"author_id":5,"source_id":25,"has_image":35,"author":42,"source":43,"quote_tag":44,"commentary":12},3019654,"I always have a story in my head that needs to be written, or at least I think I do. But I usually can’t find the time to write it.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":46,"quote_text":47,"author_id":5,"source_id":25,"has_image":35,"author":48,"source":49,"quote_tag":50,"commentary":12},3019652,"He felt full of a dense and sour substance that was blocking his chest, and it wasn’t grief. 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