About

Born in the shadow of the Swiss Alps to a French father and a Swiss mother, Jean Leveque entered the world on February 5, 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 the United States and 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.