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Dror Mishani
A novelist, editor, translator, and literary scholar, specializing in the history of detective fiction. His debut novel, The Missing File (2011) – the first in a series of detective novels featuring police inspector Avraham Avraham – has been translated into over 15 languages, won the Martin Beck Award, and an award for Best Translated Crime Novel in Sweden, and was shortlisted for the 2013 CWA International Dagger Award. The second novel in the series, A Possibility of Violence (2013), has won the Bernstein Prize for Best Hebrew Novel, and was shortlisted for the Sapir Prize. The third novel in the series, The Man Who Wanted to Know (2015), is currently being translated into several languages. Mishani is married to Martha and the father of Benyamin and Sarah. He lives in Tel Aviv and teaches in the Literature Department at Tel Aviv University.
