Writer, Director ETGAR KERET on Dreams, Memory & Writing as a Healing Process - Highlights

Writer, Director ETGAR KERET on Dreams, Memory & Writing as a Healing Process - Highlights

Writer and Director

When I compare novelists to short story writers or very short story writers, I can’t compare them, but one thing for sure, the purpose is different. I think that someone who writes tries to create or document a world. And when you write very short fiction you try to document a motion, some kind of movement.

Writer/Filmmaker ETGAR KERET: A Voice for Humanity, Culture & Creativity

Writer/Filmmaker ETGAR KERET: A Voice for Humanity, Culture & Creativity

Writer and Director

When I compare novelists to short story writers or very short story writers, I can’t compare them, but one thing for sure, the purpose is different. I think that someone who writes tries to create or document a world. And when you write very short fiction you try to document a motion, some kind of movement.

YIYUN LI - Writer & MacArthur Genius Grant Recipient - Highlights

YIYUN LI - Writer & MacArthur Genius Grant Recipient - Highlights

The artificial beginning is interesting to me. There is a clear-cut: old life, that's old country, and here's there's new life, new country. It is an advantage. You are looking at life through an old pair of eyes and a new pair of eyes. And there's always that ambivalence––Where do you belong? And how do you belong? And I do think these are advantages of immigrant writers or writers with two languages or who have two worlds.

A Thousand Years of Good Prayers with Author YIYUN LI

A Thousand Years of Good Prayers with Author YIYUN LI

The artificial beginning is interesting to me. There is a clear-cut: old life, that's old country, and here's there's new life, new country. It is an advantage. You are looking at life through an old pair of eyes and a new pair of eyes. And there's always that ambivalence––Where do you belong? And how do you belong? And I do think these are advantages of immigrant writers or writers with two languages or who have two worlds.

YIYUN LI - Writer & MacArthur Genius Grant Recipient - Highlights

YIYUN LI - Writer & MacArthur Genius Grant Recipient - Highlights

The artificial beginning is interesting to me. There is a clear-cut: old life, that's old country, and here's there's new life, new country. It is an advantage. You are looking at life through an old pair of eyes and a new pair of eyes. And there's always that ambivalence––Where do you belong? And how do you belong? And I do think these are advantages of immigrant writers or writers with two languages or who have two worlds.

A Thousand Years of Good Prayers with Author YIYUN LI

A Thousand Years of Good Prayers with Author YIYUN LI

The artificial beginning is interesting to me. There is a clear-cut: old life, that's old country, and here's there's new life, new country. It is an advantage. You are looking at life through an old pair of eyes and a new pair of eyes. And there's always that ambivalence––Where do you belong? And how do you belong? And I do think these are advantages of immigrant writers or writers with two languages or who have two worlds.

ETGAR KERET - Award-Winning Writer, Director - Highlights

ETGAR KERET - Award-Winning Writer, Director - Highlights

Writer and Director

When I compare novelists to short story writers or very short story writers, I can’t compare them, but one thing for sure, the purpose is different. I think that someone who writes tries to create or document a world. And when you write very short fiction you try to document a motion, some kind of movement.

Writer/Filmmaker ETGAR KERET: A Voice for Humanity, Culture & Creativity

Writer/Filmmaker ETGAR KERET: A Voice for Humanity, Culture & Creativity

Writer and Director

When I compare novelists to short story writers or very short story writers, I can’t compare them, but one thing for sure, the purpose is different. I think that someone who writes tries to create or document a world. And when you write very short fiction you try to document a motion, some kind of movement.