US EditionNobel Prize in literature goes to Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai
László Krasznahorkai, praised for his visionary work amid apocalyptic themes, receives the $1.2 million Nobel Prize, marking Hungary’s first literature laureate since 2002.
- The 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to László Krasznahorkai, a Hungarian novelist.
- The Nobel Committee praised Krasznahorkai for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that reaffirms the power of art.
- Krasznahorkai's work is characterized by absurdism and grotesque excess, winning widespread acclaim.
- He has previously stated he grew up in a predicament and a country where a person accursed with heightened aesthetic and moral sensitivity like him simply cannot survive.
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On Thursday, 9 October, Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai entered the very closed circle of authors awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. At 71, he was the second Hungarian author to receive this prize, after Imre Kertész in 2002.
Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai, author of a work crossed by the great catastrophes of the 20th century and by the sensation of a world that crumbles, where the characters move between destruction and madness, was distinguished with the Nobel Prize in Literature 2025. The jury of the Swedish Academy highlighted him “for his convincing and visionary work that, amid the apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art”.
A Nobel Prize for Hungary – and a bit also for Berlin: László Krasznahorkai lived in the German capital and wrote a novel that plays in Thuringia. His craziest works: a 450-minute-long film and a book from a single sentence.
In 2025, the Nobel Committee awarded the Hungarian writer Laszlo Krasnahorkai "for convincing and prophetic creativity, which, in the midst of apocalyptic horror, confirms the power of art".
László Krasznahorkai works not only in the tradition of Kafka and Thomas Bernhard, but has also sought out Eastern thinking. The Swedish Academy's Anders Olsson guides you to five books by this year's Nobel Prize winner.
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