Dror Mishani

Dror Mishani was born in 1975 in Holon

Dror Mishani was born in Holon in 1975. His father, lawyer Mordechai Mishani, later became a member of the Knesset for One Israel and Gesher.

He earned a bachelor's degree in Hebrew literature and law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He then earned a master's degree in Hebrew literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

From 2005 to 2008 he edited the books supplement of the newspaper Haaretz. From 2008 to 2013 he was editor of original Hebrew fiction at Keter Books. He translated works by Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault, and in 2006 he published a book on how Mizrahi identity appears in Hebrew literature.

His crime series about inspector Avraham Avraham began in Hebrew in 2011 and has been translated into more than 15 languages. The first novel, The Missing File, was shortlisted for the CWA International Dagger, and the second, A Possibility of Violence, won the Bernstein Prize. In 2018 The Missing File became the basis for the film Black Tide.

He teaches in the literature department at Tel Aviv University, where he heads the creative writing track. He is married to literary scholar Marta and has 2 children, and they live in Tel Aviv.