Hungarian Author Krasznahorkai László Wins Nobel Award in Literature
László Krasznahorkai has won the Nobel Prize in Literary Arts.
This Magyar writer was recognised "due to his gripping and forward-thinking oeuvre that, in the midst of end-times dread, asserts the power of creative expression."
The author has authored 5 works of fiction and received numerous further literary awards, for instance the 2015's Booker International, and the 2013's top translated work prize in Fiction for his initial novel Satantango, a postmodern creation regarding the end of the planet.
The writer is the next Magyar author to obtain the prize after the deceased Imre Kertesz, who won in 2002.
Born in 1954, Krasznahorkai obtained recognition in the mid-1980s when he published Satantango, which he adapted for the big screen in 1994.
This monochrome drama, by Magyar cinematographer Bela Tarr, is notable for its 7-hour length.
Krasznahorkai's further works consist of:
- Melancholy of Resistance (1989)
- "War and War" (1999)
- "Seiobo There Below" (2008)
The Nobel Prize in Literature portrayed him as "a outstanding sweeping novelist in the Central Europe tradition that spans through Kafka to Thomas Bernhard, and is defined by absurdism and bizarre overindulgence."
The author's 2021 work Herscht 07769 has been described as a significant present-day German book, owing to its precision in depicting the country's societal upheaval just before the global health crisis.
This is a representation of a contemporary village in Thuringia, Deutschland, troubled by societal anarchy, killing and incendiarism.
"Kind giant Florian is an orphan, taken in by a radical who has trained him as a graffiti cleaner.
"The Boss, a Johann Sebastian Bach enthusiast, is furious that an individual is applying canine emblems across the statues to the celebrated musician in their east German city."
One review remarked it as "thus grim from beginning to conclusion."
Krasznahorkai's most recent mock-heroic work, Zsömle Odavan, reverts to Hungary.
The lead is elderly Uncle Józsi Kada, who has a secret claim to the throne but has gone to great lengths to vanish from the world.
Previous Honors
Krasznahorkai previously secured the international Booker honor.
