Margarita Khemlin is a Russian Jewish author, born in Chernigov, Ukraine, whose novels have been shortlisted for Russia's foremost literary prizes - the Russian Booker Prize and the Big Book Prize. Initially, Khemlin washed dishes in a caf� to allow her to pursue her dream of becoming a writer. Now, many manuscripts later, she is a prolific and celebrated novelist in today's Russia. Since 2012 Khemlin had also been one of the jurors of the O'Henry Award in the USA.The Investigator is the first winner of the GLOBEX bank grant for translation and publication in English.
