Real name: Ferenc Hoffmann

Effective period / Period of releases: 1965 - 2001

Israeli author, dramatist, satirist, screenwriter, and film director, born 23 August 1924 in Budapest, Hungary and died 29 January 2005 in Meistersrüte, Appenzell - Innerrhoden, Switzerland.

According to Kishon, the name "Ephraim Kishon" was given to him by an immigration officer. Already in Hungary he had changed his name from Hoffmann to Kishont (Kis-Hont is Hungarian for “little Hont”, Hont being a typical Hungarian name) because of its less bourgeois sound. As Kishon tells the story, the immigration officer deleted despite the repeated insistence of Kishont the T in his name (by this naming him after an Israeli river) and said about his first name Ferenc: "does not exist", giving him the name Ephraim.