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Author Laszlo Krasznahorkai WINS The Nobel Prize in 2025
Laszlo Krasznahorkai WINS The Nobel Prize in Literature 2025
Hungarian novelist celebrated for dystopian, melancholic novels that reaffirm the power of art
The Guardian 10 OCT 2025
'Beauty in language. Fun in hell' ?
The Nobel prize in literature for 2025 has been awarded to the Hungarian author Laszlo Krasznahorkai, the Swedish Academy has announced.
The academy cited the 71 year olds compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.
Krasznahorkai is known for his dystopian, melancholic novels, which have won numerous prizes, including the 2019 National Book award for translated literature and the 2015 International Booker prize. Several of his works, including his novels Satantango and The Melancholy of Resistance, have been adapted into feature films.
I am deeply glad that I have received the Nobel prize above all because this award proves that literature exists in itself, beyond various non literary expectations, and that it is still being read, said Krasznahorkai. And for those who read it, it offers a certain hope that beauty, nobility, and the sublime still exist for their own sake. It may offer hope even to those in whom life itself only barely flickers.
Krasznahorkai richly deserves the prize, said the novelist Hari Kunzru. He has a reputation as an austere figure of European high culture, and indeed some of his work is uncompromisingly bleak and difficult, but hes also a curious, playful and very funny writer. When I read him, I feel fortified, both as a human being and as someone whos trying to make art. He shows me whats possible.
Born in Gyula, Hungary, in 1954, Krasznahorkai first made his mark with his 1985 debut novel Satantango, a mesmerising portrayal of a collapsing rural community. The novel would go on to win the Man Booker International prize in English three decades later, in 2015. It was also famously adapted into a seven hour film by director Bela Tarr, with whom Krasznahorkai has had a long creative partnership.
Often described as postmodern, Krasznahorkai is known for his long, winding sentences the 12 chapters of Satantango each consist of a single paragraph and the kind of relentless intensity that has led critics to compare him to Gogol, Melville and Kafka.
Krasznahorkai is a great epic writer in the central European tradition that extends through Kafka to Thomas Bernhard, and is characterised by absurdism and grotesque excess, said Anders Olsson, chair of the Nobel committee.
He described Krasznahorkais prose as having developed towards ? flowing syntax with long, winding sentences devoid of full stops that has become his signature.
Krasznahorkais career has been shaped by travel as much as by language. He first left communist Hungary in 1987, spending a year in West Berlin for a fellowship, and later drew inspiration from east Asia particularly Mongolia and China for works such as The Prisoner of Urga, and Destruction and Sorrow Beneath the Heavens.
While working on War and War, he travelled widely across Europe and lived for a time in Allen Ginsbergs New York apartment, describing the legendary Beat poets support as crucial to completing the novel.
Laszlo Krasznahorkai, Nobel Prize in Literature 2025 - Telephone Interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM7Pwsu2L8s
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