Hungarian Writer Krasznahorkai László Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literary Arts

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Krasznahorkai was received the prestigious Nobel in Literary Arts.

The Magyar writer was celebrated "for his compelling and visionary body of work that, in the midst of end-times dread, confirms the might of art."

He has authored five novels and garnered numerous additional literary prizes, for instance the 2015 Man Booker International Prize, and the 2013's best translated book honor in Fiction for his debut book Satantango, a postmodern creation about the end of the world.

He is the 2nd Magyar novelist to pick up the honor subsequent to the deceased Imre Kertesz, who received in the year 2002.

Born in the mid-1950s, Krasznahorkai earned acclaim in 1985 when he released Satantango, which he transformed for the movies in 1994.

This b&w drama, by Magyar cinematographer Bela Tarr, is renowned for its lengthy duration.

The author's further works comprise:

  • Melancholy of Resistance (1989)
  • War and War (1999)
  • Seiobo There Below (the 2000s)

The Nobel Prize in Literature described him as "a outstanding grand author in the Central Europe custom that reaches through Franz Kafka to Thomas Bernhard, and is marked by the absurd and bizarre overindulgence."

The author's 2021 work "Herscht 07769" has been described as a significant present-day Deutsch story, owing to its precision in illustrating the country's social upheaval just before the global health crisis.

It is a depiction of a contemporary village in Thuringia, the Federal Republic of Germany, troubled by societal anarchy, murder and arson.

"Gentle titan Florian Herscht is an ward, raised by a neo-Nazi who has mentored him as a wall writing cleaner.

"The Boss, a Johann Sebastian Bach fanatic, is incensed that someone is applying wolf symbol emblems across the monuments to the celebrated musician in their Eastern German city."

One assessment remarked it as "accordingly bleak from beginning to conclusion."

The writer's latest ironic book, "Zsömle Odavan", returns to Magyarország.

The main character is elderly Uncle Kada, who has a confidential entitlement to the throne but has made every effort to vanish from the globe.

Previous Accolades

Krasznahorkai before won the global Booker prize.

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