Joël Dicker
Joël Dicker | |
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Born | (1985-06-16) 16 June 1985 (age 39) Geneva, Switzerland |
Occupation | Novelist |
Genre | Thriller |
Notable works | La Vérité sur l’Affaire Harry Quebert |
Notable awards | Prix Goncourt des Lycéens Grand Prix du Roman de l’Academie Francaise |
Website | |
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Joël Dicker (born 16 June 1985) is a Swiss novelist.[1]
Early life
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
In 2010, after Dicker had won the Prix des écrivains genevois (Geneva Writers’ Prize), a prize for unpublished manuscripts, Parisian editor Bernard de Fallois acquired Dicker's debut novel Les derniers jours de nos pères (The Final Days of Our Fathers).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 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
Novels
- Les derniers jours de nos pères [The Final Days of our Fathers] (2010)
- The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair (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)
- A Wild Animal (2024)
Short stories
- Le Tigre [The Tiger] (2005)
Notes and references
- ^ "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. Archived from the original on 6 October 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
- Publications by and about Joël Dicker in the catalogue Helveticat of the Swiss National Library
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- 1916 Louis de Blois [fr]
- 1917 Charles Géniaux [fr]
- 1918 Camille Mayran [fr]
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- 1922 Francis Carco
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- 1982 Vladimir Volkoff
- 1983 Liliane Guignabodet [fr]
- 1984 Jacques-Francis Rolland [fr]
- 1985 Patrick Besson
- 1986 Pierre-Jean Rémy
- 1987 Frédérique Hébrard
- 1988 François-Olivier Rousseau
- 1989 Geneviève Dormann
- 1990 Paule Constant
- 1991 François Sureau
- 1992 Franz-Olivier Giesbert
- 1993 Philippe Beaussant
- 1994 Frédéric Vitoux
- 1995 Alphonse Boudard
- 1996 Calixthe Beyala
- 1997 Patrick Rambaud
- 1998 Anne Wiazemsky
- 1999 François Taillandier / Amélie Nothomb
- 2000 Pascal Quignard
- 2001 Éric Neuhoff
- 2002 Marie Ferranti
- 2003 Jean-Noël Pancrazi
- 2004 Bernard du Boucheron
- 2005 Henriette Jelinek [fr]
- 2006 Jonathan Littell
- 2007 Vassilis Alexakis
- 2008 Marc Bressant [fr]
- 2009 Pierre Michon
- 2010 Éric Faye [fr]
- 2011 Sorj Chalandon
- 2012 Joël Dicker
- 2013 Christophe Ono-dit-Biot [fr]
- 2014 Adrien Bosc [fr]
- 2015 Hédi Kaddour / Boualem Sansal
- 2016 Adélaïde de Clermont-Tonnerre
- 2017 Daniel Rondeau
- 2018 Camille Pascal
- 2019 Laurent Binet
- 2020 Étienne de Montety
- 2021 François-Henri Désérable
- 2022 Giuliano da Empoli