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Joël Dicker
Born (1985-06-16) 16 June 1985 (age 39)
Geneva, Switzerland
OccupationNovelist
GenreThriller
Notable worksLa Vérité sur l’Affaire Harry Quebert
Notable awardsPrix Goncourt des Lycéens Grand Prix du Roman de l’Academie Francaise
Website
www.joeldicker.com

Joël Dicker (born 16 June 1985) is a Swiss novelist.[1]

Early life[edit]

Dicker attended College Madame the Staël in Geneva. At the age of 19, he enrolled at the Cours Florent in Paris. After one year, he returned to Switzerland to attend law school, where he received his Master of Laws from the University of Geneva in 2010.[2]

Career[edit]

In 2010, after Dicker had won the Prix des écrivains genevois (Geneva Writers’ Prize), a prize for unpublished manuscripts, Parisian editor Bernard de Fallois acquired Dicker's debut novel Les derniers jours de nos pères (The Final Days of Our Fathers).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).[2] The book was translated into 32 languages and won several prizes, e.g., the Grand Prix du Roman de L'Académie Française and the prix Goncourt des lycéens in 2012. [3][4]

Dicker's third novel, Le Livre des Baltimore, was released on 26 September 2015.[5]

Dicker's fourth novel, La disparition de Stephanie Mailer, was released in March 2018.[6]

In March 2021, he announced via a video on Twitter that he was leaving the Fallois publishing house on 1 January 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.[7] 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.

In December 2023, he announced the publication of his latest thriller, A Wild Animal, released on 27 February 2024. [8][9]

Bibliography[edit]

Novels[edit]

Short stories[edit]

Notes and references[edit]

  1. ^ "Joel Dicker | Penguin Random House". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
  • ^ a b "Biographie / Biography". JoelDicker.com. Archived from the original on 11 October 2017. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
  • ^ Wood, Gaby (1 February 2014). "Harry Quebert: The French thriller that has taken the world by storm". The Telegraph. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
  • ^ Farrington, Joshua. "MacLehose signs 'cinematic' Joël Dicker". The Bookseller. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
  • ^ ""Le Livre des Baltimore", trop beau pour être vrai". Le Temps. 26 September 2015.
  • ^ Fallois, Editions de. "La Disparition de Stephanie Mailer". Éditions de Fallois (in French). Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  • ^ "Les Editions de Fallois annoncent qu'elles vont cesser leurs activités à la fin de l'année". Le Monde.fr (in French). 12 October 2021. Retrieved 23 November 2022.
  • ^ "Entrepreneur littéraire – Joël Dicker devient son propre patron". 24 heures (in French). Retrieved 23 November 2022.
  • ^ "Les Editions de Fallois mettent la clé sous la porte suite au départ de Joël Dicker". Le Temps (in French). 12 October 2021. ISSN 1423-3967. Retrieved 23 November 2022.
  • External links[edit]

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  • Biography

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