Joachim B. Schmidt, born in 1981, grew up in the Swiss canton of Grisons before emigrating to Iceland in 2007. His novels Tell and Kalmann were bestsellers, with Kalmann receiving the ›Crime Cologne Award‹ and placing third for the ›Swiss Crime Fiction Prize‹. Tell was number one on the Swiss bestseller list and received the 2023 ›Grisons Prize for Literature‹. Schmidt, who has dual citizenship, lives with his wife and their two children in Reykjavík.