Switzerland, Iceland
Guest of the book fair
He 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. His other novels also take place in Iceland and do not spare tension and black humour and the same goes for his latest novel Ósmann (Diogenes, 2025). 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.
foto Eva Schram, Diogenes Verlag
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