Jo�l Dicker is a Swiss novelist from Geneva, Switzerland, a French-speaking city. Dicker was born on June 16, 1985, and attended Geneva schools. At age 19 he left for drama school in Paris, at the Cours Florent. After one year he returned to Switzerland to enroll in law school, where he received his Masters of Law from the University of Geneva in 2010. Jo�l Dicker became Europe?s publishing sensation of 2013 when his book La V�rit� sur l?Affaire Harry Quebert sold nearly a million copies in France. However, his writing career started when he was a child. At age ten he founded La Gazette des Animaux, a monthly magazine about wildlife. He was its editor-in-chief for seven years. In this capacity he won the Cun�o Prize for the Protection of Nature, and was named ?Switzerland?s Youngest Editor-in-Chief? by the Tribune de Gen�ve. In 2010, at age 25, Dicker won the Prix des Ecrivains Genevois, a prestigious prize for unpublished manuscripts. After his win, the Parisian editor Bernard de Fallois acquired Dicker?s winning submission, Les Derniers Jours de Nos P�res, and published it in early 2012. 

June 16th, 1985 in Geneva (Age 39)