Hungarian Writer Krasznahorkai László Awarded Nobel Award in Literary Arts
László Krasznahorkai has received the Nobel Prize in Literature.
The Magyar writer was honored "for his compelling and forward-thinking oeuvre that, amidst cataclysmic dread, asserts the might of creative expression."
Krasznahorkai has produced 5 books and received numerous further literary honors, for instance the 2015's International Booker Award, and the 2013 finest rendered work award in Narrative for his first novel "Satantango", a postmodern piece about the conclusion of the world.
The writer is the 2nd Hungarian writer to receive the honor following the deceased Imre Kertesz, who won in 2002.
Brought into the world in the mid-1950s, Krasznahorkai gained fame in 1985 when he released Satantango, which he transformed for the cinema in the mid-1990s.
This black-and-white movie, by Hungarian film-maker Béla Tarr, is notable for its lengthy length.
Krasznahorkai's other works include:
- "The Melancholy of Resistance" (the late 80s)
- War & War (1999)
- "Seiobo There Below" (the 2000s)
The award body described him as "an great grand writer in the Central European heritage that reaches through Franz Kafka to Thomas Bernhard, and is marked by absurdism and distorted overindulgence."
The author's 2021 book "Herscht 07769" has been labeled as a major present-day German book, due to its exactness in portraying the country's social upheaval just before the pandemic.
This is a depiction of a contemporary village in Thüringen, Deutschland, plagued by societal lawlessness, homicide and fire-setting.
"Gentle giant Florian Herscht is an parentless child, taken in by a far-right extremist who has mentored him as a graffiti eraser.
"His employer, a Bach enthusiast, is enraged that a person is using wolf symbols across the memorials to the famed artist in their east German city."
One review described it as "therefore bleak from start to conclusion."
The writer's newest satirical novel, Zsömle Odavan, reverts to Magyarország.
The protagonist is 91-year-old Uncle Józsi Kada, who has a confidential right to the throne but has made every effort to disappear from the planet.
Prior Accolades
Krasznahorkai before received the worldwide Booker honor.
