Nicolas Verdan: Nicolas Verdan was born in Vevey, Switzerland in 1971. He was a prominent journalist before turning full-time to fiction. He splits his time between Switzerland and Greece. He won the Prix Bibliomedia Suisse 2006 for his first novel, Le Rendez-vous de Thessalonique, which was translated into Greek. Also the Prix du Public de la RTS 2012, Prix Schiller 2012 et lauréat du Roman des Romands 2012-2013 for his novel Le Patient du docteur Hirschfeld. The Greek Wall is his first work available in English.