Ben­jamin Balint is the author most recent­ly of Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Mur­der, and the Hijack­ing of His­to­ry, which won this year’s Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award in biog­ra­phy and was named a New York Times Book Review Edi­tors’ Choice. His pre­vi­ous book, Kafka’s Last Tri­al, award­ed the 2020 Sami Rohr Prize, has been pub­lished in twelve lan­guages. He lives in Jerusalem.