JONATHAN JAKUBOWICZ is the author of The Adventures of Juan Planchard: A Novel (Grand Central Publishing), an acclaimed Venezuelan filmmaker, and a writer. His breakthrough film, Secuestro Express, was recognized as a critics’ pick by The New York Times in 2005. He has since directed the films Hands of Stone, starring Édgar Ramirez, Ana de Armas, and Robert De Niro, and Resistance, starring Jesse Eisenberg, Ed Harris, and Bella Ramsey. In 2016, his debut novel Las Aventuras de Juan Planchard became a bestseller in the Spanish-language market, and one of the bestselling books from a Venezuelan author of all time.
