Magyar Author Krasznahorkai László Receives Nobel Award in Literary Arts
László Krasznahorkai has won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
This Hungarian writer was celebrated "for his powerful and forward-thinking body of work that, during apocalyptic terror, confirms the might of art."
The author has authored five novels and won countless additional writing honors, for instance the 2015 Man Booker International Prize, and the 2013 finest translated work prize in Fiction for his first novel Satantango, a contemporary creation concerning the conclusion of the planet.
He is the 2nd Hungarian author to pick up the honor after the former Imre Kertesz, who was awarded in 2002.
Originating in 1954, the author earned fame in 1985 when he released "Satantango", which he adapted for the cinema in 1994.
This monochrome movie, by Hungarian film-maker Béla Tarr, is renowned for its 7-hour duration.
Krasznahorkai's additional books include:
- Melancholy of Resistance (1989)
- War & War (1999)
- Seiobo Below (2008)
The award body portrayed the writer as "an exceptional grand writer in the Central European heritage that extends by way of Kafka to Thomas Bernhard, and is defined by absurdist themes and distorted overindulgence."
Krasznahorkai's 2021 work "Herscht 07769" has been labeled as a major contemporary Deutsch story, due to its accuracy in portraying the nation's societal upheaval right before the pandemic.
It's a portrayal of a current hamlet in Thüringen, the Federal Republic of Germany, plagued by social lawlessness, murder and fire-setting.
"Kind giant Florian is an parentless child, taken in by a radical who has trained him as a street art eraser.
"His employer, a Bach enthusiast, is enraged that a person is using wolf emblems across the memorials to the celebrated composer in their Eastern German municipality."
One review remarked it as "accordingly grim from start to end."
His newest ironic book, Zsömle Odavan, goes back to Magyarország.
The lead is 91-year-old Uncle Kada, who has a confidential claim to the throne but has taken extreme measures to vanish from the planet.
Prior Accolades
He earlier won the international Booker Prize prize.