Christian Kracht is a Swiss novelist whose work has been translated into 35 languages. His novels include «Faserland»; «1979»; «Imperium», which was the recipient of the Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize; and «Die Toten», which won the Swiss Book Prize and the Herman Hesse Award. «Eurotrash», his novel of 2021, has been adapted for film, will be staged at the Young Vic in London later this year, won the Swiss Literature Award, was longlisted for the International Booker Prize, and shortlisted for the Deutscher Buchpreis and the Leipziger Buchpreis. It was heralded by, among others, The Washington Post as «a brilliant reckoning with history and memory, and with the ambiguities inherent in the art of writing fiction in the first place.» Kracht lives in Zürich.
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