Joël Dicker (born 16 June 1985) is a Swiss novelist.

Early life

Dicker attended College Madame the Staël in

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. At the age of 19, he enrolled at the

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in Paris. After one year, he returned to Switzerland to attend law school, where he received his

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from the

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in 2010.

Career

In 2010, after winning the ''Prix des écrivains genevois'' (Geneva Writers’ Prize), a prize for unpublished manuscripts, Parisian editor Bernard de Fallois acquired Dicker's debut novel '' Les derniers jours de nos pères (The Final Days of Our Fathers).'' The book was published the same year. In September 2012, de Fallois published Dicker's ''La Vérité sur l’Affaire Harry Quebert (

The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair ''The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair'' is a novel by Swiss author Joël Dicker. It was published in the United States on 27 May 2014, by Penguin Books. The original French version, ''La vérité sur l’affaire Harry Quebert'', has sold m ...

).'' The book was translated into 32 languages and won several prizes, e.g. the Grand Prix du Roman de L'Académie Française and the

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in 2012. Dicker's third novel, ''Le Livre des Baltimore'', was released on 26 September 2015. Dicker's fourth novel, ''La disparition de Stephanie Mailer'', was released in March 2018. In March 2021, he announced via a video on Twitter that he was leaving the Fallois publishing house on January 1, 2022, to create his own publishing house. The small Fallois publishing house ceased its activity following this departure, in accordance with the wishes of its founder, who had died three years earlier. In October 2021, he launched Éditions Rosie & Wolfe, named after a woman, Rosina, who introduced him to the pleasure of reading and after his grandfather, who gave him a taste for writing.

Bibliography

Novels

* ''Les derniers jours de nos pères'' he Final Days of our Fathers(2010) * ''

'' (2012) translated by Sam Taylor * ''The Baltimore Boys'' (2015) translated by Alison Anderson * ''The Disappearance of Stephanie Mailer'' (2018) translated by Howard Curtis * ''The Enigma of Room 622'' (2020) translated by Robert Bonnono * ''The Alaska Sanders Affair'' (2022)

Short stories

* ''Le Tigre'' he Tiger(2005)

Notes and references

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dicker, Joel Writers from Geneva 1985 births Living people 21st-century Swiss novelists Swiss crime fiction writers Swiss male novelists University of Geneva alumni Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française winners Prix Goncourt des lycéens winners 21st-century male writers