Magyar Writer László Krasznahorkai Receives the Nobel Award in Literature
The Hungarian writer has won the prestigious Nobel in Literature.
The Magyar author was honored "for his compelling and prophetic collection that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, asserts the power of art."
The author has written five books and garnered countless other writing prizes, including the 2015 Man Booker International Prize, and the 2013's top translated book honor in Fiction for his initial novel Satantango, a avant-garde creation about the finish of the globe.
He is the 2nd Hungarian novelist to pick up the honor after the late Kertesz Imre, who was awarded in 2002.
Born in 1954, László Krasznahorkai gained recognition in the mid-1980s when he published "Satantango", which he adapted for the cinema in the mid-1990s.
This black-and-white drama, by Hungarian cinematographer Tarr Bela, is famous for its seven-hour length.
Krasznahorkai's further novels consist of:
- "The Melancholy of Resistance" (the late 80s)
- "War and War" (1999)
- Seiobo There Below (2008)
The Nobel Prize in Literature characterized him as "an great grand writer in the European tradition that spans by way of Franz Kafka to Thomas Bernhard, and is characterised by the absurd and distorted overindulgence."
The author's 2021 work Herscht 07769 has been labeled as a great modern Deutsch story, due to its accuracy in illustrating the country's social upheaval right before the pandemic.
This is a depiction of a current small town in Thüringen, Germany, afflicted by societal chaos, killing and arson.
"Kind giant Herscht Florian is an orphan, raised by a radical who has apprenticed him as a street art cleaner.
"The leader, a Johann Sebastian Bach fanatic, is enraged that an individual is using wolf symbol symbols across the monuments to the famed artist in their Eastern German municipality."
One critique remarked it as "thus bleak from beginning to finish."
Krasznahorkai's most recent mock-heroic work, "Zsömle Odavan", returns to Magyarország.
The protagonist is ninety-one-year-old Uncle Kada, who has a secret entitlement to the royal seat but has taken extreme measures to vanish from the globe.
Prior Honors
Krasznahorkai previously received the worldwide Booker honor.
