Forgotten Book: In Matto’s Realm by Friedrich Glauser

THE GLAUSER is Germany's most prestigious crime-fiction award. Named after Friedrich Glauser, the Swiss-German who in his short life worked with the Foreign Legion in North African, was a coal miner besides being a hospital orderly. He was also a schizophrenic, addicted to opium and morphine, who spent most of his life in psychiatric wards …