Jānis Joņevs

Jānis Joņevs (born 21 March 1980 in Jelgava) is a Latvian writer, copywriter and translator from French.

[1] After studying at the local Gymnasium in Jelgava, he went to Riga for his higher education and earned a Master's degree from the Latvian Academy of Culture.

Joņevs is best known for his debut novel Doom 94 (Jelgava 94) which was a bestseller upon its release in 2013.

The book later won the European Union Prize for Literature.

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