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Marta Eich

Marta Eich (*1972) is a German-Czech translator. After graduating from the Prague Graphic School, she studied Bohemian Studies and translation studies at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University. She has been living in Berlin since 2000. She translates mainly texts on art historical and contemporary prose (Gianna Molinari, Monika Helfer, Mariana Leky, Peter Stamm and others). She also translated the successful novel "Kalmann" (Bitter Lemon Press, 2022) as well as its second part "Kalmann and the Sleeping Mountain" (Bitter Lemon Press, 2024) by the Swiss-Icelandic writer Joachim B. Schmidt, which she and the author will present at this year's fair

 Marta Eich

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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