Nobel Prize in Literature 2025 for Hungarian Laszlo Krasnahorkai

Stockholm, 9 October / WAM / The Swedish Academy awarded Hungarian writer Laszlo Krasnahorkai the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature today.
In a statement, the Swedish Academy attributed the award to him “in recognition of his captivating creative works full of imagination, which reaffirm the power of art in confronting the horror of the end of the world.”
She said, “Laszlo Krasnahorkai is a prominent epic writer in the Central European heritage that extends from Kafka to Thomas Bernard… He is distinguished by his extremely absurd and strange style, but he has other aspects, as he also looks to the East by adopting a more meditative and precise tone.”
Krasnahorkai’s novels are set among remote villages and towns in Central Europe, from Hungary to Germany, before extending to the Far East.
Krasnahorkai, the second Hungarian to win the award after Imre Kertesti in 2002, was born in the small town of Gyula in southeastern Hungary near the Romanian border.
Last year, writer Han Kang won the award, becoming the first South Korean and the eighteenth woman to receive it.
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