for Finsterwalder's second feature film, Sisi & I, a biopic about Empress Elisabeth of Austria, will premiere at the 73rd Berlin Film Festival on 19 February 2023. Kracht's 2021 novel Eurotrash was adapted for the stage by Jan Bosse at Schaubühne, Berlin, premiering on 18 November 2021. Publications BooksFaserland (novel), 1995Ferien für immer (travel writing – with Eckhart Nickel), 1998Mesopotamia. Ein Avant-Pop-Reader (as publisher, anthology), 1999Tristesse Royale (with Joachim Bessing, Eckhart Nickel, Alexander von Schönburg and Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre), 1999Der gelbe Bleistift (travel writing), 20001979 (novel), 2001Die totale Erinnerung. Kim Jong Ils Nordkorea, 2006. Released in English with Feral House as The Ministry of Truth. New Wave. Ein Kompendium 1999–2006, 2006Metan (with Ingo Niermann), 2007Ich werde hier sein im Sonnenschein und im Schatten (novel), 2008Gebrauchsanweisung für Kathmandu und Nepal (travel writing/guide book to Nepal – with Eckhart Nickel), 2009Five Years: Briefwechsel 2004–2009. Band 1: 2004–2007 – with David Woodard, 2011, Imperium (novel), 2012, Finsterworld (screenplay), 2013The Dead (Die Toten) (novel), 2016Eurotrash (novel), 2021, Audio books Liverecordings (with Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre, Harald Schmidt and Christian Ulmen), 1999Faserland, 20001979, 2002Das Sobhraj Quartett – Asiatische Reisenotizen (with Eckhart Nickel), 2004Das Jagdgewehr ("The Hunting Gun") by Yasushi Inoue (with Sandra Schwittau, Mavie Hörbiger and Hannelore Elsner), 2005Frühstück bei Tiffany (Breakfast at Tiffany's) by Truman Capote, 2007Triptychon (with Dieter Meier, Schorsch Kamerun and Dirk von Lowtzow), 2011Imperium (with Dominik Graf), 2012Die Toten'', 2016 Distinctions 1993 – Axel Springer Prize for Young Journalists 2009 – Phantastik-Preis der Stadt Wetzlar 2012 – Literaturpreis des Kantons Bern 2012 – Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize 2014 – The Extraordinary Book Award 2016 – Swiss Book Prize 2016 – Hermann-Hesse-Preis 2017 – nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award 2019 – nominated for the Prix Médicis 2021 – shortlisted for the German Book Prize 2021 – Swiss Literature Awards References Most references are in German. External links 1966 births Sarah Lawrence College alumni Living people Swiss male novelists Postmodern writers 20th-century Swiss novelists 21st-century Swiss novelists 20th-century male writers 21st-century male writers People from the canton of Bern Alumni of Schule Schloss Salem Der Spiegel people Swiss Book Prize winners