{"id":485830,"date":"2025-10-09T14:14:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T14:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/485830\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T14:14:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T14:14:14","slug":"nobel-prize-in-literature-awarded-to-hungarian-writer-laszlo-krasznahorkai-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/485830\/","title":{"rendered":"Nobel Prize in literature awarded to Hungarian writer Laszlo Krasznahorkai | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__subhead\">Krasznahorkai, 71, was recognised for his \u2018compelling and visionary oeuvre\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Published On 9 Oct 20259 Oct 2025<\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p>share2<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n<p>The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in literature to Hungarian novelist and screenwriter Laszlo Krasznahorkai.<\/p>\n<p>The second Hungarian to win the prestigious literary award, Krasznahorkai, 71, was recognised on Thursday \u201cfor his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list<\/p>\n<p>Born in the small southeastern Hungarian town of Gyula, Krasznahorkai draws inspiration in his writing from his experiences under communism and the extensive travels he undertook after first moving abroad in 1987 to West Berlin for a fellowship.<\/p>\n<p>His novels, short stories and essays are best known in Germany, where he lived for long periods, and Hungary, where he is considered by many as the country\u2019s most important living author.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is a hypnotic writer,\u201d Krasznahorkai\u2019s English language translator, the poet George Szirtes, told the AFP news agency. \u201cHe draws you in until the world he conjures echoes and echoes inside you, until it\u2019s your own vision of order and chaos\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Critically difficult and demanding, Krasznahorkai once described his own style as \u201creality examined to the point of madness\u201d. His penchant for long sentences and few paragraph breaks has also seen the writer labelled as \u201cobsessive\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-arc-image-770 wp-image-4020882\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AFP__20251009__788J4WE__v1__HighRes__SwedenNobelPrizeLiterature-1760009728.jpg\" alt=\"Books of Hungarian writer Laszlo Krasznahorkai, the winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature, are on display at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, Sweden, on October 9, 2025. (Photo by Jonathan Nackstrand \/ AFP) \/ ALTERNATIVE CROP\" fetchpriority=\"low\"\/>Books of Hungarian writer Laszlo Krasznahorkai, the winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize for literature, are on display at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, Sweden, on October 9, 2025 [Jonathan Nackstrand\/AFP]<\/p>\n<p>Several of Krasznahorkai\u2019s works, including his debut, Satantango, and The Melancholy of Resistance, were turned into films by Hungarian director Bela Tarr.<\/p>\n<p>In winning the Nobel Prize, now worth $1.2m, he joins an illustrious list of laureates that includes Toni Morrison, Ernest Hemingway and Kazuo Ishiguro.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the award went to South Korean author Han Kang, who was praised \u201cfor her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life\u201d. Han was the first South Korean writer and 18th woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Krasznahorkai, 71, was recognised for his \u2018compelling and visionary oeuvre\u2019. 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