Hungarian Writer László Krasznahorkai Awarded the Nobel Award in Literary Arts
László Krasznahorkai has received the Nobel Prize in Literary Arts.
The Hungarian writer was celebrated "due to his gripping and forward-thinking body of work that, amidst cataclysmic terror, reaffirms the might of literature."
He has authored five books and received countless further literary awards, such as the 2015's International Booker Award, and the 2013's top translated book honor in Fiction for his initial novel Satantango, a avant-garde piece about the finish of the globe.
Krasznahorkai is the next Hungarian writer to obtain the award subsequent to the deceased Kertesz Imre, who won in 2002.
Born in the mid-1950s, Krasznahorkai earned recognition in the mid-1980s when he released Satantango, which he adapted for the cinema in 1994.
This black-and-white film, by Hungarian film-maker Bela Tarr, is renowned for its 7-hour duration.
The author's other works comprise:
- "The Melancholy of Resistance" (the late 80s)
- War and War (the late 90s)
- "Seiobo There Below" (the 2000s)
Nobel committee characterized Krasznahorkai as "an great epic novelist in the Central European custom that reaches via Kafka to Thomas Bernhard, and is defined by absurdism and distorted overindulgence."
Krasznahorkai's 2021 book Herscht 07769 has been labeled as a great modern Deutsch book, because of its precision in illustrating the nation's societal upheaval right before the pandemic.
It's a depiction of a current hamlet in Thuringia, Germany, troubled by social chaos, homicide and arson.
"Kind colossus Herscht Florian is an parentless child, taken in by a far-right extremist who has mentored him as a street art cleaner.
"The leader, a Johann Sebastian Bach devotee, is incensed that someone is using wolf symbol symbols across the statues to the famed artist in their former GDR city."
A critique described it as "thus dark from beginning to end."
Krasznahorkai's newest mock-heroic work, Zsömle Odavan, reverts to Magyarország.
The protagonist is 91-year-old Józsi Kada, who has a confidential right to the throne but has taken extreme measures to fade away from the planet.
Earlier Honors
He before won the international Booker prize.
