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Dror Burstein was born in 1970 in Netanya, Israel, and lives in Tel Aviv. He first became a fully qualified lawyer, then he left the legal field and started studying literature. He received a PhD in Hebrew literature from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2002 and now teaches there. A writer, a poet, a literary editor, Burstein translates poetry from English to Hebrew and has also edited classical music radio programs for Israeli Broadcast Authority. From 2011 until 2020, he served as the editor of the poetry journal Helikon. Burstein has been awarded the Ministry of Culture Prize for Poetry (2002), the Bernstein Prize for his debut novel, Avner Brenner (2005), the Prime Minister's Prize (2006, 2017), the Goldberg Prize for his novel Sun's Sister (2014) and the Bialik Prize and the Neuman Prize for Small World (2021). | |
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Books Published in Hebrew
| Fruit; Divorce (poetry), Even Hoshen, 1999 [Peirot; Get] | Avner Brenner
(novel)
, Babel, 2003 [Avner Brenner] | Twin Cities (stories), Babel, 2004 [Arim Teʹomot] | Murderers
(novel)
, Babel, 2006 [Ha-Rotzchim] | With No Case of Death: Stories from Kibbutz Lohamei Haghetaot (non-fiction), Babel, 2007 [Bli Shum Mikre Mavet: Sipurim Mi-Kibbutz Lochamei Ha-Getaʹot] | Kin
(novel)
, Keter, 2009 [Karov] | Netanya
(novel)
, Keter, 2010 [Netanya] | My Cup of Tea
(children-picture bk)
, Am Oved, 2011 [Kos Ha-Te Sheli] | Sun’s Sister
(novel)
, Keter, 2012 [Achot Shemesh] | Issues in Literature (non-fiction), Bialik Institute, 2013 [Sheʹelot Be-Sifrut] | Meat and Art
(essay)
, Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2014 [Tmunot Shel Basar] | Muck
(novel)
, Keter, 2016 [Tit] | My Life at the Moment (poetry), Even Hoshen, 2016 [Eleh Ka-Rega Chayai] | A Coat Called Sam
(children-picture bk)
, Keter, 2016 [Me'il U-Shmo Shmuel] | Man in Space
(essays)
, Babel, 2018 [Adam Ba-Halal] | Light Refugees: A Flight after Bats (with Maya Weinberg)
(non-fiction)
, Afik, 2019 [Plitey Or: Ma'of Be-Ikvot Atalefim] | For the Birds
(non-fiction)
, Yedioth Ahronoth, 2019 [Le-Tovat Ha-Tziporim] | Present
(nature writing)
, Even Hoshen, 2020 [Hoveh] | Small World
(essay)
, Babel, 2021 [Olam Katan] | Along the Way (novel), New Library, 2023 [Baderech] | |
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Books in Translation
French: Arles, Actes Sud, 2010 Italian: Rome, Riuniti, 2012 English: Champaign, IL, USA, Dalkey Archive, 2012 German: Gottingen, Wallstein, 2013 Turkish: Istanbul, Dedalus, 2015 Azeri: Baku, Yayainlari, 2021 English: Champaign, IL, Dalkey Archive, 2013 Spanish: Mexico, Leetra, 2015 French: Arles, Actes Sud, 2014 English: New York, Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2018; [audio recording] Grand Haven, Michigan, BrillianceAudio, 2018 French: Arles, Actes Sud, forthcoming in 2024
German: Zurich, Kein und Aber, forthcoming in 2024
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