Kalmann and the Sleeping Mountain
Band 2
Band 2
Published by Diogenes as Kalmann und der schlafende Berg
Original Title: Kalmann und der schlafende Berg

Kalmann is in hot water. More specifically, he’s at the FBI Headquarters in Washington. All he wanted was to visit his American father – but his dad leaves him high and dry, and before Kalmann knows it, he’s on a plane back to Iceland. Yet there’s no rest to be found in the far north either. There’s been a murder, and the clues lead back to America and the Cold War. Who is going to solve this explosive case? Correctamundo: Kalmann, the famed sheriff of Raufarhöfn.

Contemporary Literature
304 pages
2023

978-3-257-07266-2
Joachim B.
Schmidt

Joachim B. Schmidt, born in 1981, grew up in the Swiss canton of Grisons before emigrating to Iceland in 2007. His novels are bestsellers and have won numerous awards, including the ›Crime Cologne Award‹ and, most recently, the ›Glauser Prize‹. A dual citizen, Schmidt lives in Reykjavík with his wife and their two children.

Photo: Eva Schram / © Diogenes Verlag

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Peer Teuwsen
NZZ am Sonntag, Zurich

»A modern Charlie Chaplin. Kalmann’s naive view on the world makes readers marvel, too.«

Stefan Rammer
Passauer Neue Presse, Passau

»Once more an extremely entertaining and kind book.«

James Russell
Shots Magazine UK, London

»[…] Kalmann finds himself dragged into the aftermath of a Cold War mystery that once involved his grandfather, the Americans, and Russian spies – and what began as a gentle and amusing story finally changes pace and sails off to an explosive climax.«

The Glauser Prize Jury

»This book throws us right into the conflicts of the big wide world. Kalmann, the ›Sheriff of Raufarhöfn‹, involuntarily finds himself in the middle of the Capitol riots and in the FBI’s hands. Joachim B. Schmidt draws the funniest and most remarkable connections in Kalmann and the Sleeping Mountain, with originality, with wit and eloquence. Kalmann never judges, he views things as they are. For this reason, he is in many ways wiser than we are. An absorbing, brilliant crime novel. Humorous. Never preachy.«

Muireann Maguire
The Times Literary Supplement, London

The Kalmann books are full of quirky charm [...].

News

Joachim B. Schmidt receives the ›Glauser Prize‹ 
Joachim B. Schmidt has been awarded the ›Glauser Prize‹ for his novel Kalmann and the Sleeping Mountain. The ›Glauser Prize‹...
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Awards

2024

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