Christian Kracht

Christian Kracht is a widely acclaimed Swiss novelist whose work has been translated into 30 languages. His novels include Faserland, 1979, Imperium and Die Toten. Imperium was the recipient of the Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize and Die Toten won the Swiss Book Prize and the Herman Hesse Award. Eurotrash, his most recent work, is under option for film, and was shortlisted for the Deutscher Buchpreis, the Leipziger Buchpreis, and is a finalist for the Schweizer Grand Prix Literatur.