Hungarian Author László Krasznahorkai Receives Nobel Prize in Literature
László Krasznahorkai has received the Nobel Prize in Literature.
The Magyar writer was honored "for his powerful and visionary oeuvre that, during cataclysmic dread, reaffirms the strength of literature."
Krasznahorkai has authored 5 books and won numerous further literary prizes, such as the 2015's Man Booker International Prize, and the 2013 best rendered work honor in Narrative for his debut book Satantango, a postmodern piece regarding the finish of the planet.
The writer is the second Magyar author to obtain the prize subsequent to the late Imre Kertesz, who won in 2002.
Born in 1954, the author earned recognition in 1985 when he issued "Satantango", which he adapted for the movies in 1994.
This b&w drama, by Magyar cinematographer Béla Tarr, is renowned for its seven-hour duration.
Krasznahorkai's further books include:
- Melancholy of Resistance (the late 80s)
- War & War (1999)
- Seiobo Below (2008)
The award body portrayed the writer as "a outstanding epic author in the Central European heritage that spans via Franz Kafka to Bernhard Thomas, and is marked by absurdist themes and distorted extremity."
His 2021 book Herscht 07769 has been labeled as a great present-day Deutsch book, because of its precision in illustrating the land's social unrest just before the pandemic.
It's a portrayal of a contemporary hamlet in Thuringia, Germany, troubled by social anarchy, killing and incendiarism.
"Gentle titan Florian is an ward, raised by a radical who has trained him as a wall writing remover.
"The leader, a Johann Sebastian Bach devotee, is furious that a person is using wolf symbol emblems across the statues to the celebrated artist in their Eastern German city."
One critique described it as "therefore bleak from start to end."
The writer's most recent ironic work, Zsömle Odavan, returns to Magyarország.
The lead is ninety-one-year-old Józsi Kada, who has a secret entitlement to the royal seat but has gone to great lengths to fade away from the world.
Previous Accolades
Krasznahorkai previously won the global Booker honor.
