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10th October, 2025
Krasnahorkai wins Nobel Prize for Literature
Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai was named on Thursday the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 23 years after the honour was bestowed on another Hungarian writer, Imre Kertész.
The awards panel said Krasznahorkai was honoured for his compelling and visionary work that, reaffirms the power of art in the midst of apocalyptic terror.
He was born in 1954 in Gyula, in south-eastern Hungary near the Romanian border.
His first novel, Satan Tango; set in a similarly remote rural environment, created a literary sensation in Hungary when it was published in 1985 and proved to be a breakthrough for the writer. It was later made into a seven-and-a-half-hour film by director Béla Tarr.
The book was eventually published in English translations by poet George Szirtes, as were The Melancholy of Resistance (1989) and War and War (1999), also mentioned among Krasznahorkai’s more significant works.
Krasznahorkai gave a brief English language statement for the Swedish National Radio station on Thursday. He said he is very happy, calm and nervous at the same time, adding “You know, this is the first day in my life when I won a Nobel Prize”.
The novelist has said he did not plan to be a writer and originally planned to write only one novel. But he was not happy with Satan Tango, so he wrote another one to correct the errors of the first book. He said his whole life is about corrections.
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