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Joachim B. Schmidt

He grew up as the son of a farmer in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. During his travels in Iceland, he fell in love with the country so much that in 2007 he moved permanently to Reykjavik, started a family and took Icelandic citizenship. His novel Kalmann (Bitter Lemon Press, 2022) has been a great success with readers and has received a number of important awards, including the German Crime Cologne Award. His other novels also take place in Iceland and do not spare tension and black humour and the same goes for his latest novel Ósmann (Diogenes, 2025). This year, the author will visit Prague again to present the second part of his successful novel about a peculiar inhabitant of a remote Icelandic village, Kalmann and the Sleeping Mountain (Bitter Lemon Press, 2024), which was awarded the Friedrich Glauser Prize for crime literature in German-speaking countries.
foto Eva Schram, Diogenes Verlag

 Joachim B. Schmidt

Guest program

Joachim B. Schmidt: Kalmann and the Sleeping Mountain

Book World Prague 2025

12:00 - 12:50

Das Buch, Nakladatelství PROSTOR

Czech, German

Readers already know the peculiar self-proclaimed sheriff from a remote Icelandic village from the black-humoured crime novel "Kalmann". The author has some...

Saturday, 17. 5. 2025

Joachim B. Schmidt - autogramiáda

Book World Prague 2025

13:00 - 13:50

Das Buch, Nakladatelství PROSTOR

Spisovatel Joachim B. Schmidt v návaznosti na autorské čtení podepisuje své knihy.

Saturday, 17. 5. 2025

North, My Second Homeland

Book World Prague 2025

13:00 - 13:50

Das Buch, Nakladatelství PROSTOR

Czech, German

Swiss author and naturalized Icelandic Joachim B. Schmidt and Veronika Opatřilová, writer and translator into Swedish, share a love for the Nordic countries,...

Sunday, 18. 5. 2025

Informal meeting with Veronika Opatřilová and Joachim B. Schmidt

Book World Prague 2025

14:00 - 14:50

Nakladatelství PROSTOR, Das Buch

Sunday, 18. 5. 2025