Nobel Prize for Literature awarded to Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize successful Literature to Hungarian novelist and screenwriter László Krasznahorkai.

Known for his philosophical, bleakly comic novels, Krasznahorkai, 71, is the 122nd laureate to triumph the award.

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He was recognised “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, successful the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the powerfulness of art”.

Several of Krasznahorkai’s works, including his debut, “Satantango” and “The Melancholy of Resistance,” were turned into films by Hungarian manager Bela Tarr.

In winning the award, helium joins an illustrious database of laureates that includes Toni Morrison, Ernest Hemingway and Kazuo Ishiguro.

Last year, the grant went to South Korean writer Han Kang, who was praised “for her aggravated poetic prose that confronts humanities traumas and exposes the fragility of quality life”. Han was the archetypal South Korean writer and 18th pistillate to triumph the Nobel Literature Prize.

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