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 Ph.D. in Hebrew literature from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2001 and now teaches at Tel Aviv University. A literary editor and curator of exhibitions, Burstein writes literary and art reviews for the Hebrew Press and has also edited programs for Israel Radio’s music station. Since 2011 he is editor of the poetry journal Helikon. Burstein has been awarded the Jerusalem Prize for Literature (1997), the Ministry of Science and Culture Prize for Poetry (2002), the Bernstein Prize for his novel Avner Brenner (2005), the Prime Minister’s Prize (2006), and the Goldberg Prize for Sun’s Sister (2014).
