Magyar Writer Krasznahorkai László Awarded Nobel Award in Literature

László Krasznahorkai has won the prestigious Nobel in Literature.

This Magyar novelist was celebrated "for his powerful and forward-thinking oeuvre that, amidst end-times terror, reaffirms the strength of creative expression."

The author has authored five works of fiction and received countless other writing awards, for instance the 2015's Booker International, and the 2013 top translated book honor in Fiction for his debut novel Satantango, a avant-garde work regarding the end of the globe.

Krasznahorkai is the second Magyar writer to receive the honor subsequent to the late Kertesz Imre, who was awarded in 2002.

Brought into the world in 1954, László Krasznahorkai obtained recognition in the mid-1980s when he published "Satantango", which he adapted for the movies in 1994.

This black-and-white film, by Hungarian cinematographer Tarr Bela, is renowned for its 7-hour duration.

His other novels comprise:

• Melancholy of Resistance (1989)
• War & War (1999)
• Seiobo Below (2008)

The Nobel Prize in Literature characterized Krasznahorkai as "an exceptional grand writer in the Central Europe heritage that spans by way of Kafka to Thomas Bernhard, and is characterised by absurdist themes and bizarre overindulgence."

Krasznahorkai's 2021 work Herscht 07769 has been labeled as a significant present-day German story, due to its precision in illustrating the nation's social unrest just before the pandemic.

It's a portrayal of a current small town in Thüringen, Deutschland, afflicted by societal chaos, killing and incendiarism.

"Kind titan Florian Herscht is an orphan, adopted by a neo-Nazi who has apprenticed him as a street art remover.

"The Boss, a Bach enthusiast, is enraged that someone is using wolf insignias across the monuments to the celebrated musician in their east German town."

One critique noted it as "accordingly grim from beginning to end."

His most recent ironic book, Zsömle Odavan, goes back to the Hungarian setting.

The protagonist is elderly Józsi Kada, who has a secret right to the throne but has taken extreme measures to vanish from the planet.

Prior Accolades

Krasznahorkai earlier won the global Booker award.