Hungarian Writer Krasznahorkai László Wins the Nobel Award in Literary Arts
The Hungarian writer has received the prestigious Nobel in Literature.
This Magyar novelist was recognised "for his powerful and visionary oeuvre that, during apocalyptic dread, asserts the power of literature."
Krasznahorkai has authored five books and received numerous further writing honors, for instance the 2015 Booker International, and the 2013 top rendered novel award in Narrative for his initial novel "Satantango", a postmodern piece regarding the end of the world.
Krasznahorkai is the next Hungarian author to receive the honor after the late Kertesz Imre, who won in 2002.
Born in 1954, László Krasznahorkai obtained fame in 1985 when he issued Satantango, which he adapted for the movies in 1994.
The monochrome drama, by Hungarian cinematographer Béla Tarr, is famous for its seven-hour running time.
The author's other novels comprise:
- Melancholy of Resistance (1989)
- War & War (1999)
- "Seiobo There Below" (2008)
The Nobel Prize in Literature described the writer as "an outstanding sweeping author in the European custom that spans through Kafka to Thomas Bernhard, and is marked by absurdist themes and distorted excess."
His 2021 work Herscht 07769 has been described as a major modern Deutsch story, because of its precision in depicting the nation's communal upheaval right before the global health crisis.
It is a portrayal of a current small town in Thüringen, Germany, troubled by societal chaos, homicide and incendiarism.
"Kind giant Florian is an parentless child, adopted by a radical who has apprenticed him as a street art eraser.
"The leader, a Johann Sebastian Bach enthusiast, is furious that someone is applying wolf emblems across the memorials to the renowned composer in their Eastern German city."
One assessment remarked it as "thus grim from beginning to finish."
Krasznahorkai's latest satirical book, Zsömle Odavan, returns to the Hungarian setting.
The lead is elderly Uncle Józsi Kada, who has a confidential entitlement to the throne but has gone to great lengths to vanish from the world.
Prior Honors
He earlier secured the international Booker Prize prize.
