20 Facts About Christian Kracht

Christian Kracht's books have been translated into more than 30 languages.

Christian Kracht graduated from Sarah Lawrence College, New York, in 1989.

Christian Kracht worked as a journalist for a number of magazines and newspapers in Germany, including.

Christian Kracht then moved to Bangkok, from where he visited various other countries in South East Asia and authored travel vignettes which were serialised in the Welt am Sonntag newspaper, and in 2000 collated in the book Der gelbe Bleistift.

In November 2006 Christian Kracht was a regular columnist for the newspaper.

Christian Kracht traveled to and wrote pieces on places as diverse as the Panjshir Valley, Mogadishu, Mount Kilimanjaro and the Safavid architecture of Imam Ali Shrine in Iraq.

In 1999 Christian Kracht took part in the performance piece Tristesse Royale with Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre, Joachim Bessing, Eckhart Nickel and Alexander, Count of Schonburg-Glauchau.

Between September 2004 and June 2006 Christian Kracht published the independent literary magazine Der Freund in collaboration with Eckhart Nickel.

Christian Kracht initially lived in Kathmandu while working as the magazine's editor before leaving Nepal during a period of political unrest.

In 2012 Christian Kracht published an exchange of letters with Woodard entitled Five Years.

Christian Kracht is married to German film director Frauke Finsterwalder, with whom he has a daughter who was born in 2009.

The protagonists of Christian Kracht's fiction embark on journeys that take them in search of an elusive moment of immersive, utopian experience or spiritual enlightenment often located in a different nation or culture.

Christian Kracht is sceptical about such a reading of his work and argues that he writes literary "light entertainment" and "comedies".

The accusation of racism levelled at Christian Kracht was widely repudiated by other figures in the literary industry, including publisher Helge Malchow and fellow authors, such as Daniel Kehlmann, Feridun Zaimoglu, Necla Kelek and Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek.

Christian Kracht's work has appeared in The Paris Review and in Harper's Magazine.

Christian Kracht's novels are pastiche; a playful blend of influences appropriated from areas of "high" and "low" culture.

Christian Kracht has attested that a writer "always performs being a writer".

Christian Kracht's performance is persuasive and has successfully seduced reviewers into sometimes overlooking the distinction between the author and narrator to erroneously identify Kracht as the autobiographical protagonist of his debut novel Faserland.

Christian Kracht has sometimes been a controversial figure in modern German-language literature.

Christian Kracht co-authored the screenplay for the 2013 film Finsterworld, which was directed by his wife Frauke Finsterwalder.