Hungarian Writer Krasznahorkai László Receives Nobel Prize in Literary Arts

Krasznahorkai was awarded the prestigious Nobel in Literary Arts.

This Hungarian novelist was celebrated "due to his compelling and forward-thinking collection that, amidst end-times terror, asserts the power of creative expression."

The author has authored five works of fiction and received numerous additional literary honors, for instance the 2015 Booker International, and the 2013's best translated novel award in Fiction for his first novel "Satantango", a avant-garde piece concerning the end of the globe.

Krasznahorkai is the second Magyar writer to receive the award after the late Imre Kertesz, who received in 2002.

Originating in the mid-1950s, the author gained acclaim in the mid-1980s when he released Satantango, which he converted for the cinema in 1994.

This monochrome movie, by Magyar director Bela Tarr, is famous for its seven-hour duration.

His other books consist of:

• The Melancholy of Resistance (1989)
• War and War (1999)
• Seiobo There Below (2008)

The award body portrayed the writer as "an great sweeping writer in the Central Europe heritage that reaches via Kafka to Thomas Bernhard, and is marked by the absurd and bizarre overindulgence."

The author's 2021 novel Herscht 07769 has been labeled as a major modern Deutsch novel, because of its precision in illustrating the nation's societal upheaval prior to the global health crisis.

It is a depiction of a contemporary small town in Thuringia, the Federal Republic of Germany, afflicted by social lawlessness, murder and incendiarism.

"Gentle titan Herscht Florian is an ward, raised by a radical who has apprenticed him as a street art eraser.

"His employer, a Bach enthusiast, is furious that a person is applying canine symbols across the memorials to the famed composer in their east German town."

One assessment remarked it as "thus bleak from beginning to conclusion."

Krasznahorkai's newest satirical work, Zsömle Odavan, returns to Magyarország.

The protagonist is 91-year-old Józsi Kada, who has a confidential entitlement to the monarchy but has taken extreme measures to disappear from the world.

Previous Honors

He previously secured the worldwide Booker Prize honor.