Hungarian Author László Krasznahorkai Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

László Krasznahorkai has won the Nobel Prize in Literature.

This Magyar author was recognised "for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic fear, asserts the strength of literature."

He has authored 5 works of fiction and won countless other literary honors, including the 2015's International Booker Award, and the 2013 top translated work award in Fiction for his debut novel "Satantango", a postmodern creation regarding the end of the world.

The writer is the next Hungarian novelist to obtain the award subsequent to the late Imre Kertesz, who was awarded in the year 2002.

Born in the mid-1950s, Krasznahorkai obtained acclaim in 1985 when he issued Satantango, which he converted for the big screen in 1994.

This b&w drama, by Magyar director Tarr Bela, is famous for its seven-hour duration.

The author's additional novels comprise:

"The Melancholy of Resistance" (1989)
War & War (1999)
Seiobo Below (the 2000s)

Nobel committee described the writer as "a great sweeping novelist in the Central European custom that reaches by way of Kafka to Thomas Bernhard, and is characterised by absurdist themes and distorted excess."

His 2021 novel "Herscht 07769" has been labeled as a major contemporary German novel, because of its accuracy in portraying the country's social unrest prior to the COVID-19.

This is a representation of a modern hamlet in Thuringia, Germany, afflicted by societal chaos, homicide and fire-setting.

"Gentle colossus Herscht Florian is an ward, raised by a far-right extremist who has apprenticed him as a wall writing cleaner.

"The leader, a Bach fanatic, is furious that an individual is applying wolf insignias across the statues to the renowned musician in their Eastern German municipality."

A assessment noted it as "therefore bleak from start to conclusion."

His newest ironic book, Zsömle Odavan, reverts to the Hungarian setting.

The protagonist is elderly Uncle Kada, who has a confidential claim to the throne but has taken extreme measures to fade away from the globe.