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Joachim B. Schmidt

(Švýcarsko / Island | Switzerland / Iceland *1981)
Joachim B. Schmidt 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. 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.

 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

Neformální setkání s Veronikou Opatřilovou a Joachimem B. Schmidtem

Book World Prague 2025

14:00 - 14:50

Nakladatelství PROSTOR, Das Buch

Sunday, 18. 5. 2025