Dror Mishani

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Dror Mishani

Dror A. Mishani ( Hebrew דרור משעני; born 1975 ) is an Israeli writer . He is the author of a number of detective novels about investigator Avi Avraham.

Life

Dror Mishani lives in Tel Aviv with his wife and two children . He works as a translator and literary professor specializing in the history of crime fiction and teaches at Tel Aviv University . He wrote his master's thesis on the development of the Mizrahim in Israeli literature, a population group of which he himself comes. His doctoral thesis has remained unfinished and was interrupted by work on his first two novels.

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The series around the investigator Avi Avraham from Cholon is, according to the author, a "literary crime series". He used the genre of the detective novel, but tried to write literature that went beyond crime and reported "about society, about language, about literature, about the genre itself". He draws a comparison with the Maigret series of Georges Simenon and wants its investigators in a Proust accompany ''s sense of his life from youth to retirement. In addition to Maigret, the investigator is compared to Henning Mankell's Wallander due to the sadness of his private life . Tobias Gohlis, on the other hand, compares the “elegant, realistic crime fiction that also reflects its literary conditions” with Arne Dahl .

At the beginning of the first novel Missing , Avraham asks why there are no crime novels from Israel. In spite of the exceptional Batya Gur , Mishani sees crime fiction not rooted in Hebrew literature , a fact that he wants to remedy with his novels. His fictional character has numerous, also biographical, similarities with its author, ranging from the relationship with parents and women to the common theory that all literary investigators are wrong and that a different resolution than the one presented is conceivable in every detective novel. According to Katharina Granzin, the debut novel achieves its "tension solely from the discrepancy between appearance and reality". Udo Feist's verdict: “Sparkling tension that can do without psychopaths and cynics.” The novel won the Swedish crime prize in 2013 for the best crime novel translated into Swedish.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bio on the page of Dror A. Mishani.
  2. ↑ a b c “Don't trust an investigator” . Interview with Dror Mishani on Krimi-Couch.de , August 2013.
  3. ↑ a b The big mystery: Dror Mishani on why Israelis don't write crime novels . In: Haaretz from May 16, 2013.
  4. ↑ Thomas Klingenmaier: Complete helplessness . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung of August 9, 2013.
  5. ↑ Tobias Gohlis : Beginning with Avraham . In: The time of August 1, 2013.
  6. ↑ Elmar Krekeler: You can be murdered normally in Israel too . In: Die Welt of July 29, 2013.
  7. ↑ Heike Karen Runge: Dror Mishani: Missing ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: fluter from January 24, 2014.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fluter.de
  8. ↑ Katharina Granzin: Men with Secrets . In: the daily newspaper of September 7, 2013.
  9. ^ WDR 2 Crime Tip - Dror Mishani ( Memento from December 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) . On WDR 2 from December 9, 2013.
  10. ↑ Carsten Hueck: A man for all situations , review on Deutschlandfunk Kultur from August 31, 2019, accessed September 4, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Mishani, Dror
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mishani, Dror A .; דרור משעני (Hebrew)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1975