Jānis Joņevs

Jānis Joņevs is a Latvian writer. He was born in 1980 in Jelgava. 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 Jelgava'94 which was a bestseller upon its release in 2013. The book later won the EU Prize for Literature.^[1]

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