'''Joseph Kalmer''' ([[August 17]] [[1898]], Nehrybce (Nahrybka, today Poland) - [[July 9]][[1959]], [[Vienna]]) was an [[Austria]]n writer, poet and translator.
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Kalmer attended [[Hauptschule|high school]] in [[Czernowitz]] and [[gymnasium (school)|gymnasium]] in Vienna. He started to write during his studies, and later became a journalist. In 1938, after the Anschluss, he emigrated to Czechoslovakia and a year later to England where he set up a literary agency.
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In 1935, together with Ludwig Huyn, Kalmer wrote a book ''Abessinien'' ([[Abyssinia]] or [[Ethiopia]]) about travel to that country. The book is a vivid and detailed description of the history, people and customs of this ancient country getting dragged into the modern age under threat of war with Italy. The book was translated into several languages (e.g. into Czech, 1935).
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==External links==
* [http://www.onb.ac.at/sammlungen/litarchiv/bestand/sg/nl/kalmer.htm Biography (in German)]
* [http://www.literaturhaus.at/db/browse/BUCH/info.htm?ds=12892_23444&dbid=1776848 Abessinien book details (in German)]
