Born in the shadow of the Swiss Alps to a French and Swiss parents, Jean Leveque entered the world in 1968, in an alpine village. The son of a seasoned mountaineer and merchant father, and a botanist mother with a penchant for sketching wildflowers, his childhood took an unexpected turn when, at age six, the family relocated to South America due to his father’s trading business. There, growing up in a sun-drenched highland region, the rhythms of rural life and the storytelling of farmhands wove a tapestry that would later thread through his writing.
At nineteen, he went to university in the United States and later earned a degree in economics, although he indulged in literature during his college days more than any other subject. A career in trading followed his graduation, until in his mid-life he began to write. He married and eventually returned to Europe, settling in a farm in France where The Beholder emerged from years of quiet reflection.
He continues to live simply with his wife in their farm where, aside from tending his sheep, he writes fiction and poetry.
