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Esteemed Writer László Krasznahorkai Awarded the Nobel Nobel Award in Literary Arts
The prestigious Nobel Prize in Literature for 2025 has been granted to the Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai, as declared by the Nobel awarding body.
The Academy commended the 71-year-old's "compelling and visionary oeuvre that, within end-times dread, reasserts the force of creative expression."
A Legacy of Apocalyptic Fiction
Krasznahorkai is renowned for his dark, melancholic novels, which have won several awards, for instance the 2019 National Book Award for translated literature and the prestigious Man Booker International Prize.
A number of of his novels, including his titles his debut and The Melancholy of Resistance, have been made into movies.
Initial Success
Born in the Hungarian town of Gyula in the mid-1950s, Krasznahorkai first made his mark with his 1985 initial work Satantango, a grim and hypnotic representation of a failing rural community.
The book would go on to secure the Man Booker International Prize award in the English language nearly three decades later, in the 2010s.
A Distinctive Writing Approach
Commonly referred to as postmodernist, Krasznahorkai is famous for his extended, meandering prose (the dozen sections of Satantango each are a one paragraph), dystopian and melancholic subjects, and the kind of relentless power that has led literary experts to draw parallels with Gogol, Melville and Kafka.
The novel was famously adapted into a seven-hour motion picture by filmmaker Béla Tarr, with whom Krasznahorkai has had a lengthy creative partnership.
"Krasznahorkai is a significant writer of epic tales in the European literary tradition that extends through Franz Kafka to the Austrian writer, and is defined by absurdist elements and bizarre extremes," stated the committee chair, leader of the Nobel panel.
He portrayed Krasznahorkai’s style as having "progressed to … smooth language with extended, meandering sentences lacking full stops that has become his hallmark."
Literary Praise
Susan Sontag has described the author as "the modern Hungarian master of end-times," while the writer W.G. Sebald commended the universality of his perspective.
Just a small number of Krasznahorkai’s books have been translated into English translation. The critic Wood once wrote that his books "circulate like precious items."
Worldwide Travels
Krasznahorkai’s professional journey has been shaped by exploration as much as by his writing. He first exited the communist Hungary in the late 80s, residing a twelve months in the city for a fellowship, and later was inspired from east Asia – especially Mongolia and China – for novels such as a specific work, and his book on China.
While writing this novel, he travelled widely across Europe and lived for a time in Allen Ginsberg’s New York residence, noting the famous Beat poet's assistance as crucial to completing the book.
Author's Perspective
Asked how he would describe his writing in an interview, Krasznahorkai said: "Characters; then from letters, words; then from these terms, some concise lines; then further lines that are longer, and in the main extremely lengthy sentences, for the period of 35 years. Elegance in prose. Fun in darkness."
On audiences finding his writing for the first time, he added: "If there are people who are new to my works, I would refrain from advising any specific title to peruse to them; instead, I’d suggest them to step out, settle somewhere, maybe by the banks of a creek, with no obligations, nothing to think about, just being in silence like boulders. They will in time come across a person who has previously read my books."
Award Background
Before the announcement, betting agencies had listed the top contenders for this annual award as the Chinese writer, an avant garde from China writer, and the Hungarian.
The Nobel Honor in Literature has been presented on over a hundred previous occasions since 1901. Current laureates include the French author, Dylan, Gurnah, Glück, the Austrian and Tokarczuk. The most recent winner was Han Kang, the South Korean author renowned for her acclaimed novel.
Krasznahorkai will ceremonially receive the prize medal and document in a event in winter in Stockholm, Sweden.
Updates to come
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