Pascal Janovjak

Pascal Janovjak was born in Basel in 1975 to a French mother and Slovakian father. He studied comparative literature and art history in Strasbourg before moving to the Middle East where he worked first in Jordan for an Aid and Development programme and then in Libya, where he taught literature at the University of Tripoli. His 2019 novel Le zoo de Rome (Rome Zoo), published by Actes Sud was awarded the 2020 Swiss Literature Award.