Who is Joël Dicker, the author of "The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair" (video)

A French-speaking Swiss

The novel became a world bestseller and won the Grand Prix in the nomination of the best novel of the French Academy. “The blank page symptom can happen to any young writer. You have to understand that the goal is to write a book, better than the one about Harry Quebert. We can always do better. I want to write for all those who did not like the novel, for those who say that I am not the author, and for those who consider it very bad. I want to tell them. “You didn't like the second one. So wait until you see the third one".

Prize winner of the French Academy

Grand Prix winner Joël Dicker published his first novel in 2005. The novel "The Tiger" received an international prize for young authors. In 2010, the novel "The Last Days of Our Fathers" was published, for which he received the Swiss Writers' Prize.

The youngest editor-in-chief

He was graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Geneva. He also participated in theater master classes in Paris. At the age of 10, he published a newspaper about animals with a friend, won an environmental award, and was declared the youngest editor-in-chief in Switzerland.

He likes Oriental martial arts and Latin American music

Joël Dicker likes boxing and oriental martial arts, does CrossFit, listens to Latin American music, and is a skilled drummer. In 2016, he founded a Latin American rock group, Latinwood, with his friends. Joël often compares writing a book to a musical performance. "Literature and music are similar. But when I write a book, I have time to make corrections. The reader will read it months later. And during concerts, I feel what is happening at that very moment. And you can't say, wait, let's do it again".The events in the writer's novels usually take place outside of his homeland. The first book, the events of which take place in the writer's homeland, was the novel "The Enigma of Room 622". This book also became one of the top ten novels written in French.

The Chocolatier Writer

After the worldwide dizzying success, the 38-year-old writer bought the Geneva chocolate factory, the oldest one, which was on the verge of closure. Dicker decided to save it with his friend.