{{Short description|Israeli writer and translator}} {{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see :Template:Infobox writer/doc --> | name = Dror Mishani<br>דרור משעני | image = דרור משעני.jpg | imagesize = 200px | caption = | pseudonym = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1975|6|23|df=yes}} | birth_place = Holon, Israel | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Novelist | period = | genre = Crime fiction | subject = Crime, thriller, mystery | movement = | notableworks = The Missing File, <BR>A Possibility of Violence | influences = | influenced = | signature = | website = {{URL|http://d-a-mishani.com/}} }}
'''Dror Mishani''' ({{langx|he|דרור משעני}}; born 23 June 1975) is an Israeli crime writer, translator and literary scholar, specializing in the history of detective fiction.
His series of crime fiction, featuring police inspector Avraham Avraham, was first published in Hebrew in 2011 and is translated to over 15 languages, including English, Swedish and German.<ref name="haaretz">{{cite web|url=https://www.haaretz.com/2013-05-16/ty-article/.premium/a-mystery-why-dont-israelis-write-crime-novels/0000017f-e130-df7c-a5ff-e37a0e430000 |title=The big mystery: Dror Mishani on why Israelis don't write crime novels|publisher=haaretz.com|access-date=2014-08-06}}</ref><ref name="krimi-couch">{{cite web|url=http://www.krimi-couch.de/krimis/interview-with-dror-mishani.html|title=Interview with Dror Mishani: 'Never Trust a Detective'|publisher=krimi-couch.de|accessdate=2014-08-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131226010830/http://www.krimi-couch.de/krimis/interview-with-dror-mishani.html|archive-date=2013-12-26|url-status=dead}}</ref>
The first novel in the series, ''The Missing File'',<ref name="npr">{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2013/04/20/176060874/the-trustful-detective-a-q-a-with-an-israeli-crime-novelist|title=Interview: D.A Mishani, Author Of 'The Missing File' | The Trustful Detective : NPR|publisher=npr.org|accessdate=2014-08-06}}</ref> was short listed for the 2013 CWA International Dagger award and won the Martin Beck Award, for the best translated crime novel in Sweden.<ref name="wordpress">{{cite web|url=http://lottensbokblogg.wordpress.com/2013/12/30/utsuddade-spar-av-dror-mishani/|title=Utsuddade spår av Dror Mishani | Lottens Bokblogg|publisher=lottensbokblogg.wordpress.com|accessdate=2014-08-06}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.svd.se/kultur/vemodig-noir-blev-basta-deckare_8759128.svd|title=Vemodig noir blev bästa deckare|last=TT|publisher=|accessdate=16 April 2018}}</ref> Mishani's second novel, '' A Possibility of Violence'', was the first crime novel on Sapir prize's (Israeli Booker) shortlist and won the Bernstein Prize for best Hebrew novel of the year. The third novel in the series, '' The Man Who Wanted to Know Everything'', was published in Hebrew in May 2015. In 2018 film director Erick Zonca took his novel ''The Missing File'' as a basis for ''Black Tide'' [''Fleuve noir''].
Mishani's wife is originally from Poland. While she was teaching in Cambridge, Mishani's plan was to finish his doctoral dissertation, but he ended up writing ''The Missing File.'' Afterward, he attempted to write the dissertation, but instead wrote the second novel.<ref name="haaretz2">{{cite web|url=https://www.haaretz.com/2013-05-16/ty-article/.premium/a-mystery-why-dont-israelis-write-crime-novels/0000017f-e130-df7c-a5ff-e37a0e430000|title=The big mystery: Dror Mishani on why Israelis don't write crime novels|publisher=haaretz.com|access-date=2014-08-06}}</ref>
Mishani lives with his wife and two children in Tel Aviv.
==Bibliography== * ''Tik Ne'edar'' (2011; English translation by Steven Cohen: The Missing File, 2013) * ''Efsharut shel Alimut'' (2013; English translation by Todd Hasak-Lowy: A Possibility of Violence, 2014) * ''Haish sheratza ladaat hakol'' (2015; English translation by Todd Hasak-Lowy: The Man Who Wanted to Know Everything, 2016) * ''Shalosh'' (2018; English translation by Jessica Cohen: Three, 2020) * ''Emuna'' (2021; English translation by Jessica Cohen: Conviction, 2022)
== References == {{reflist}}
==External links== * [http://maaboret.com/en/stories/reflections-in-the-lake/ ''Reflections in the Lake'']{{dead link|date=March 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}, a short story (full text), at {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20160916025051/http://maaboret.com/en/main/The Short Story Project]}} {{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mishani, Dror}} Category:Israeli novelists Category:Israeli translators Category:Ben-Gurion University of the Negev alumni Category:1975 births Category:Living people Category:Israeli crime fiction writers Category:Israeli male writers Category:21st-century Israeli writers Category:Male novelists Category:21st-century Israeli novelists Category:21st-century Israeli male writers Category:21st-century translators Category:Bernstein Prize recipients