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Dror Burstein was born in 1970 in Netanya, Israel, and lives in Tel Aviv with his wife, two children and dog. He was qualified as a lawyer, but hasn't practiced law. He started his study of literature and earned a Ph.D. in Hebrew literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2003), writing his thesis on the late Israeli author Jacob Shabtai. He now teaches at the department of literature at the Tel Aviv University. Burstein has been awarded the Jerusalem Prize for Poetry (1997), the Ministry of Science and Culture Prize for Poetry (2002), the Prime Minister's Prize (2005) and the Bernstein Prize (2005) for his first novel, Avner Brenner (2003), which was followed by a short-prose book, Twin Cities (2004). Murderers (2006) was his second novel. He published a documentary book, Without a Single Case of Death (2007) about the Ghetto Fighter's Kibbutz (English translation, 2007). His later books are Kin (2009; English translation by Dalya Bilu, Dalkey Archive Press, 2012) and Netanya (2010; English translation by Todd Hasak-Lowy, Dalkey Archive Press, 2013). German, Italian, French and Turkish translations of his books are also available. In 2018 his latest novel, Muck, was translated by Gabriel Levin and published by FSG.
His personal page is www.drorburstein.com (Hebrew). He also a member of the Hebrew Haiku collective, www.haikuinhebrew.com.
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