Published On 9 Oct 2025
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature to Hungarian novelist and screenwriter László Krasznahorkai.
Known for his philosophical, bleakly funny novels, Krasznahorkai, 71, is the 122nd laureate to win the award.
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He was recognised “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art”.
Several of Krasznahorkai’s works, including his debut, “Satantango” and “The Melancholy of Resistance,” were turned into films by Hungarian director Bela Tarr.
In winning the award, he joins an illustrious list of laureates that includes Toni Morrison, Ernest Hemingway and Kazuo Ishiguro.
Last year, the award went to South Korean author Han Kang, who was praised “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”. Han was the first South Korean writer and 18th woman to win the Nobel Literature Prize.
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