Background
He was born in 1980 in Jelgava.
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.