Joakim Zander
Joakim Zander was born in Stockholm, has lived in Syria and Israel, and graduated from high school in the United States. He earned a PhD in law from Maastricht University in the Netherlands and has worked as a lawyer for the European Union in Brussels and Helsinki. Rights to his debut novel <em>The Swimmer</em> were sold in twenty-eight countries. Zander lives and works in southern Sweden with his family.