Hungarian Writer László Krasznahorkai Awarded Nobel Award in Literature
The Hungarian writer has won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
This Hungarian author was recognised "due to his gripping and prophetic body of work that, amidst apocalyptic dread, reaffirms the power of art."
He has written five novels and received numerous other writing prizes, for instance the 2015 International Booker Award, and the 2013 finest translated work prize in Narrative for his first novel "Satantango", a avant-garde work about the end of the planet.
Krasznahorkai is the second Hungarian writer to obtain the prize following the late Imre Kertesz, who received in 2002.
Born in 1954, the author obtained fame in 1985 when he published Satantango, which he transformed for the movies in the mid-1990s.
The monochrome film, by Hungarian cinematographer Bela Tarr, is famous for its lengthy duration.
The author's additional books comprise:
- Melancholy of Resistance (1989)
- War and War (the late 90s)
- Seiobo Below (2008)
The Nobel Prize in Literature described the writer as "an outstanding grand writer in the European tradition that extends through Kafka to Bernhard Thomas, and is defined by absurdism and grotesque extremity."
The author's recent work "Herscht 07769" has been called as a major modern Deutsch book, owing to its exactness in portraying the land's societal upheaval right before the pandemic.
It's a representation of a modern village in Thuringia, Germany, afflicted by social anarchy, homicide and arson.
"Gentle titan Herscht Florian is an orphan, taken in by a neo-Nazi who has mentored him as a wall writing eraser.
"The leader, a Bach devotee, is enraged that someone is applying canine symbols across the statues to the famed artist in their Eastern German municipality."
A critique remarked it as "thus dark from start to finish."
His latest mock-heroic novel, Zsömle Odavan, returns to the Hungarian setting.
The protagonist is elderly Uncle Kada, who has a secret claim to the monarchy but has taken extreme measures to vanish from the globe.
Prior Honors
Krasznahorkai previously secured the worldwide Man Booker award.
