Dror Mishani (b. 1975) is a writer, screenwriter, translator and literary scholar, head of the Creative writing program in Tel Aviv University.

His novels were translated into more than 20 languages, and won numerous international prizes, including the prestigious Martin Beck award for best crime novel translated to Swedish, and Prix Mystere de la Critique in France. They include four installments in the Avraham detective series - "The Missing File" (2011)"A Possibility of Violence" (2013); "The Man who wanted to know everything" (2015); and "Conviction" (2021) - and a Stand-alone thriller, "Three" (2018).

Dror is also the author of a collection of essays on Hebrew fiction ("The Ethnic Unconscious", 2006), a recent memoir ("An unheroic war diary", forthcoming) and numerous essays on Literature, culture and Politics.

He teaches in Tel Aviv University, where he's head of the Creative Writing program. His courses include Prose writing workshops, as well also various courses on literary theory, literature and ethnicity, and the history of detective fiction. He's a regular contributor to Haaretz Book Review, of which he was editor in chief in 2005-2008. His translations include works by Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault and Pierre Bayard.