I'm not a writer.
I'm just a humorist.
Only when you are dead you become a writer."
Books, Plays and Movies by Ephraim Kishon
Important Books
- Look Back Mrs. Lot: Grins and Groans from the Holy Land, N. Tversky (Tel Aviv), 1960
- Look Back, Mrs. Lot!, Atheneum, 1961
- Noah's Ark, Tourist Class, N. Tversky, 1961, Atheneum, 1962
- The Seasick Whale: An Israeli Abroad, Deutsch, 1965.
- (With Kariel Gardosh) So Sorry We Won!, Ma'ariv Library (Tel Aviv), 1967
- Unfair to Goliath, Atheneum, 1968
- (With Gardosh) Woe to the Victors!, Bloch, 1969
- Blow Softly Jericho, Atheneum, 1970
- The Fox in the Chicken-Coop: A Satirical Novel, translation by Jacques Namiel, Bronfman, 1971
- Wise Guy, Solomon, Atheneum, 1973
- No Oil, Moses, translation by Miriam Arad, Shikmona Publishing, 1975
Translated from the Hebrew by Yohanan Goldman, except as noted.
Theater Plays
- His Name Precedes Him
- Salah Shabati
- You`re Telling Me
- Black on White
- The Poor Man`s Lamb
- Not a Word to Morgenstern
- A Cat in the Bag
- Unplug, the Water is Boiling
- The Licence aka The Marriage Contract
- He and She
- Not A Word to Morgenstern
- Sallah Shabati
- Black on White
- His Friend at Court
- Oh, Oh Juliet!
- Unfair to Goliath (Broadway)
- The Fifth Column
Movies
- Not a Word to Morgenstein
- Sallah Shabati
- Ervinka
- The big Dig
- The Policeman
- The Going Up of David Lev
- The Fox in the Chicken Coop
Books
- Atheneum, New York
- Look Back Mrs Lot
- Noah's Arc, Tourist Class
- Unfair to Goliath
- Blow softly in Jericho
- Longmans, Green & Co, Canada
- Wise Guy, Solomon
- McCelland & Stewart, Cananda
- Look Back Mrs Lot
- Noah's Arc, Tourist Class
- Unfair to Goliath
- Hebrew Publishing Co, New York
- Blow Softly in Jericho
- (With Leora Baron) Hebrew with Kishon, 1975
- Shikmona, Jerusalem
- Hebrew with Kishon
- No Oil, Moses?
- Nuts, Hams & Prompters
- The Mark of Cain
- My Family Right or Wrong
- Bachmann & Turner, London
- One Eden for Rent
- Sutkiewicz, Toronto
- My Family Right or Wrong
- Noah's Arc, Reservation Please
- F & R Publication, Manila
- Paradise for Rent
- Andre Deutsch, London
- Around the World in Eighty Days- Again!
- Look Back Mrs Lot
- Noah's Arc, Tourist Class
- The Seasick Whale
- Unfair to Goliath
- Penguin, London
- Blow Softly in Jericho
- Look Back Mrs Lot
- Maariv, Tel Aviv
- Unfair to Goliath
- So Sorry We Won
- Tversky , Tel Aviv
- Woe to the Victors
- Look Back Mrs Lot
- Noah's Arc, Tourist Class
- Bronfman, Tel Aviv
- The Seasick Whale
- Look Back Mrs Lot
- Noah's Arc, Tourist Class
- The Seasick Whale
- The Fox in the Chicken Coop
- Unfair to Goliath
- Blow Softly in Jericho
- Wise Guy, Solomon
- The Best of Kishon
- Bantam Books, New York
- Blaumilch Canal
- Prion, London
- New York ain't America
- The Coathrangers of Vienna
- Shapolky Books, New York
- The Best of Ephraim Kishon
- The Funniest Man of the World
- English Theatre Guild, 1984
- Oh Romeo: A Farce