Dror Burstein
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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) and the Goldberg Prize for his novel Sun's Sister (2014). — Source: The Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature
Books
Kin
In this retelling of Little Red Riding Hood, Ruby deVarre, the granddaughter of the most revered clanmother in New Haven, is expected to settle down, but all Ruby wants to do is run free through the woods and be with Conrad, a handsome boy from a clan across the Waste, so when she starts mistrusting Conrad and the murders start she soon finds out Conrad's secrets run deeper than she imagined.