Magyar Writer László Krasznahorkai Receives Nobel Prize in Literature
László Krasznahorkai has won the prestigious Nobel in Literary Arts.
The Hungarian novelist was honored "for his gripping and visionary body of work that, amidst cataclysmic fear, confirms the might of literature."
The author has written five works of fiction and received many further writing prizes, for instance the 2015 International Booker Award, and the 2013's finest translated work award in Narrative for his initial book "Satantango", a postmodern work concerning the finish of the planet.
The writer is the next Hungarian writer to obtain the award after the late Imre Kertesz, who won in 2002.
Born in the mid-1950s, the author obtained acclaim in the mid-1980s when he published Satantango, which he adapted for the cinema in 1994.
This monochrome film, by Magyar film-maker Bela Tarr, is famous for its seven-hour duration.
The author's further novels include:
- "The Melancholy of Resistance" (the late 80s)
- War & War (1999)
- Seiobo There Below (2008)
The award body characterized Krasznahorkai as "an exceptional grand author in the Central European custom that extends by way of Franz Kafka to Bernhard Thomas, and is characterised by absurdist themes and distorted excess."
Krasznahorkai's 2021 novel "Herscht 07769" has been described as a great present-day Deutsch novel, due to its precision in depicting the nation's social turmoil just before the global health crisis.
This is a depiction of a modern village in Thüringen, Germany, troubled by societal anarchy, killing and incendiarism.
"Kind giant Herscht Florian is an orphan, raised by a radical who has apprenticed him as a street art remover.
"The Boss, a Johann Sebastian Bach fanatic, is enraged that an individual is using canine emblems across the statues to the renowned musician in their east German town."
One review noted it as "therefore bleak from start to finish."
His most recent ironic novel, "Zsömle Odavan", goes back to Hungary.
The main character is elderly Uncle Kada, who has a secret entitlement to the monarchy but has gone to great lengths to fade away from the planet.
Prior Honors
He previously received the global Booker Prize honor.
