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Christian Kracht<\/strong> (Saanen, 1966) is a Swiss writer and journalist, and one of the most prominent contemporary authors writing in German. He studied film in the United States and, as a journalist, has contributed to numerous European newspapers and magazines, including Der Spiegel<\/em>, for which he worked as a correspondent in India. He has lived and travelled extensively across Europe, Asia, Africa, and the South Pacific, experiences that have had a strong influence on his literary work. He lives and works in Zurich.<\/p>\n He first attracted literary attention with his debut novel, Faserland<\/em> (1995), which is considered one of the key works of contemporary German literature. His prose is characterized by themes of identity, history, and ideology, combined with a distinctive ironic, detached, and highly refined style. His novels include 1979<\/em> (2001), which examines the ideology and spiritual emptiness of the contemporary world; I Will Be Here in Sunshine and in Shadow<\/em> (2008), an alternative history of the 20th century; Imperium<\/em> (2012), inspired by the extraordinary life story of August Engelhardt; The Dead<\/em> (2016), a novel about film, propaganda, and cultural ties between Europe and Japan; Eurotrash<\/em> (2021), an autobiographically inflected story about family, identity, and inheritance; and Air<\/em> (2025), which combines elements of fantasy and philosophical fiction.<\/p>\n He is the recipient of the Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize (2012), the Swiss Book Prize (2016), the Hermann Hesse Prize (2016), the Swiss Literature Award (2021), and the Wolfgang Koeppen Prize (2022). His works have been translated into more than thirty languages, and the English translation of his novel Eurotrash<\/em> was longlisted for the 2025 International Booker Prize. The novel has also recently been published in Serbian.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Christian Kracht (Saanen, 1966) is a Swiss writer and journalist, and one of the most prominent contemporary authors writing in German. He studied film in the United States and, as a journalist, has<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4943,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ucesnici-2026"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prosefest.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prosefest.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prosefest.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosefest.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosefest.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4944"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/prosefest.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5133,"href":"https:\/\/prosefest.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4944\/revisions\/5133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosefest.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prosefest.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosefest.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosefest.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}