Magyar Writer Krasznahorkai László Wins the Nobel Award in Literature

Portrait of László Krasznahorkai

László Krasznahorkai has received the prestigious Nobel in Literary Arts.

The Hungarian novelist was celebrated "due to his powerful and prophetic body of work that, during cataclysmic dread, confirms the power of art."

Krasznahorkai has produced five books and received countless further literary prizes, for instance the 2015 Man Booker International Prize, and the 2013's best rendered book prize in Fiction for his initial novel Satantango, a contemporary creation about the end of the planet.

He is the second Magyar novelist to receive the prize after the former Kertesz Imre, who was awarded in the year 2002.

Brought into the world in the mid-1950s, the author earned recognition in 1985 when he issued Satantango, which he adapted for the big screen in 1994.

This b&w film, by Hungarian cinematographer Tarr Bela, is renowned for its lengthy duration.

The author's other novels include:

  • Melancholy of Resistance (1989)
  • "War and War" (the late 90s)
  • "Seiobo There Below" (the 2000s)

The Nobel Prize in Literature described him as "an great grand novelist in the European custom that spans by way of Franz Kafka to Bernhard Thomas, and is marked by absurdism and distorted overindulgence."

The author's recent work Herscht 07769 has been described as a major modern Deutsch story, because of its accuracy in illustrating the country's social upheaval right before the COVID-19.

It's a representation of a modern village in Thuringia, Deutschland, plagued by societal chaos, murder and fire-setting.

"Gentle titan Florian is an parentless child, adopted by a radical who has apprenticed him as a street art cleaner.

"The Boss, a Bach devotee, is furious that someone is using wolf symbols across the memorials to the celebrated musician in their east German town."

One review remarked it as "therefore bleak from start to finish."

His most recent satirical work, Zsömle Odavan, goes back to Hungary.

The protagonist is elderly Uncle Józsi Kada, who has a confidential right to the monarchy but has taken extreme measures to vanish from the globe.

Previous Honors

Krasznahorkai previously secured the worldwide Booker award.

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