The prize includes a paid translation of the winning book into any language of the author’s choosing, and Keret gained some attention for selecting Yiddish.

His 2019 book published in English as Fly Already ( תקלה בקצה הגלקסיה, literally Glitch at the Edge of the Galaxy) won Israel’s prestigious Sapir Prize in Literature. Keret publishes some of his works on the Hebrew-language web site 'Bimah Hadashah' (New Stage). Keret also wrote a children's book Dad Runs Away with the Circus (2004), illustrated by Rutu Modan. Keret's latest short story collections are Anihu ( אניהו, literally I-am-him, 2002 translated into English as Cheap Moon, after one of the other stories in the collection) and Pitom Defikah Ba-delet ( פתאום דפיקה בדלת, translated into English as Suddenly a Knock at the Door). It appears in the English language collection of Keret's stories The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God & Other Stories (2004) and was adapted into the graphic novel Pizzeria Kamikaze (2006), with illustrations by Asaf Hanuka. The title story, the longest in the collection, follows a young man who commits suicide and goes on a quest for love in the afterlife.

In 1998, Keret published Kneller's Happy Campers ( הקייטנה של קנלר, Hakaytana Shel Kneller), a collection of short stories. The illustrators were the five members of the Actus Tragicus collective. In 1999, five of his stories were translated into English, and adapted into 'graphic novellas' under the joint title Jetlag.

Keret has co-authored several comic books, among them Nobody Said It Was Going to Be Fun ( לא באנו ליהנות, Lo banu leihanot, 1996) with Rutu Modan and Streets of Fury (סמטאות הזעם, Simtaot Haza'am, 1997) with Asaf Hanuka. The short story 'Siren', which deals with the paradoxes of modern Israeli society, is included in the curriculum for the Israeli matriculation exam in literature. His second book, Missing Kissinger ( געגועיי לקיסינג'ר, Ga'agu'ai le-Kissinger, 1994), a collection of fifty very short stories, caught the attention of the general public. Keret's first published work was Pipelines ( צינורות, Tzinorot, 1992), a collection of short stories which was largely ignored when it came out.

פתאום דפיקה בדלת by Etgar Keret