Joel Dicker: An affair to remember


From a little-known publisher to international bestsellers’ lists, Joel Dicker’s journey is the stuff of most authors’ dreams.

WHEN Swiss writer Joel Dicker spun his French-language novel around a bestselling author, it is a safe bet that he wasn’t talking about himself – a lawyer with one little-known previous novel to his name, signed up to a small, independent publishing house in Paris, he was one of countless young struggling authors.

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