Joël Dicker
Joël Dicker (born June 16, 1985 in Geneva ) is a francophone Swiss writer . He became known in 2013 with the novel La Vérité sur l'Affaire Harry Quebert ( The Truth About the Harry Quebert Case ), for which he received several literary awards.
Life
Joël Dicker is the son of a bookseller and a French teacher, he is of both French and Russian descent. In his youth he played drums and at the age of ten founded La Gazette des animaux, a magazine that he ran for seven years. For his commitment to environmental policy, he was awarded the Prix Cunéo pour la protection de la nature animal welfare prize and was praised as the “youngest Swiss editor-in-chief” by the daily newspaper Tribune de Genève . He attended the Collège Madame de Staël in Geneva. At the age of 18 he moved to Paris , where he studied acting for a year at the Cours Florent . On his return he began studying law at the University of Geneva , which he successfully completed in 2010.
The novella Le Tigre made Dicker's literary debut in 2005. In 2012 he received the "Special Mention" at the Prix littéraire de l'armée de Terre - Erwan Bergot for his first novel Les derniers jours de nos pères (The last days of our fathers) , published in 2010 . In 2012 he published his second novel, La Vérité sur l'Affaire Harry Quebert ( The Truth About the Harry Quebert Case ). The story is about an American writer who visits his old professor because of writer's block and solves a murder. In addition to being nominated for other literary prizes, this work has been awarded the Prix Goncourt des lycéens , the Grand Prix du Roman and the Prix littéraire de la Vocation , among others . In 2015, Dicker was nominated for the SwissAward . In 2016 his novel Le Livre des Baltimore ( The History of the Baltimores ) was published; La Disparition de Stephanie Mailer ( The Disappearance of Stephanie Mailer ) followed in 2018 .
Works
- Le Tigre (2005)
- Les derniers jours de nos pères (2010)
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La Vérité sur l'Affaire Harry Quebert (2012)
- The truth about the Harry Quebert case . Translated from the French by Carina von Enzenberg. Piper, Munich 2013. ISBN 978-3-492-05600-7 . The novel has been translated into over 40 languages. More than 3 million copies were sold by mid-2015.
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Le Livre des Baltimore (2016)
- The history of the Baltimores . Translated from the French by Brigitte Große and Andrea Alvermann. Piper, Munich, 2016. ISBN 978-3-492-05764-6
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La Disparition de Stephanie Mailer (2018)
- The Disappearance of Stephanie Mailer . Translated from the French by Amelie Thoma and Michaela Meßner. Piper, Munich 2019. ISBN 978-3-492-05939-8
- L'énigme de la chambre 622 (2020)
Web links
- Publications by and about Joël Dicker in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
- Literature by and about Joël Dicker in the catalog of the German National Library
- Official website of Joël Dicker
- The Joël Dicker phenomenon. In: The time . 4th October 2012.
- Portrait of the author Joël Dicker , on Deutschlandradio, August 5, 2013.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Andrea Kucera: The bestselling author next door In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung of September 29, 2015
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fat, Joël |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 16, 1985 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Geneva |