BC Associate Professor of German Studies Daniel Bowles has written the English translation of Swiss author Christian Kracht’s novel Eurotrash (Liveright/W.W. Norton, 2024). The acclaimed novel, which received a starred review from Publishers Weekly and was named one of the 12 Best Books of 2024 by The Times (UK), is described as a probing masterpiece-in-miniature of self-reflection and cultural reckoning. According to a review in The Washington Post, “Daniel Bowles has produced a glitteringly metaphorical translation, rich with delights.” Bowles was awarded the Goethe-Institut’s Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize for his 2015 translation of another Kracht novel, Imperium. Update: The translation of Eurotrash was longlisted for the 2025 International Booker Prize, which recognizes fiction from around the world that has been translated into English and published in the U.K. and/or Ireland. Read an interview with Bowles in BC News.