Joachim B. Schmidt, born in 1981, emigrated from Switzerland to Iceland in 2007. He is the author of several novels and short stories and a journalist and columnist. Joachim, of Swiss and Icelandic nationality, lives in Reykjavík with his wife and two children. Kalmann and the Sleeping Mountain won the the 2024 Friedrich Glauser Prize, Germany's most prestigious award for crime fiction. It is the sequel to the best-selling Kalmann, previously published by Bitter Lemon Press.
Author's Website: https://joachimschmidt.ch/
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