Joël Dicker
Joel Dicker (born 1985) received his Master of Laws degree from the University of Geneva. He won the Geneva Writers' Prize for an unpublished manuscript, after which French publisher Bernard de Falois acquired the rights to Dicker's first novel, "The Last Days of Our Fathers", and published it in 2010. In 2012, Falois published Dicker's "The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair," which immediately became a bestseller and has been translated into 32 languages. The novel is one of the best-selling translations in the American market. It has also been adapted into a 10-part television series. It is considered Switzerland's answer to the Scandinavian thriller The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Dicker's style has been compared to the writing styles of Vladimir Nabokov and Philip Roth.
