Hungarian Writer Krasznahorkai László Wins the Nobel Award in Literary Arts
László Krasznahorkai has received the prestigious Nobel in Literature.
The Hungarian author was honored "due to his gripping and forward-thinking collection that, in the midst of apocalyptic dread, confirms the might of literature."
Krasznahorkai has written five books and received numerous additional literary awards, such as the 2015 Man Booker International Prize, and the 2013's best rendered work honor in Fiction for his initial novel "Satantango", a avant-garde work about the finish of the world.
He is the next Hungarian author to pick up the honor after the late Imre Kertesz, who received in 2002.
Originating in 1954, Krasznahorkai earned recognition in the mid-1980s when he released "Satantango", which he converted for the cinema in 1994.
The monochrome movie, by Hungarian film-maker Tarr Bela, is renowned for its 7-hour running time.
His additional novels comprise:
- Melancholy of Resistance (1989)
- War and War (the late 90s)
- Seiobo There Below (2008)
The Nobel Prize in Literature portrayed him as "an exceptional sweeping novelist in the Central European heritage that reaches via Franz Kafka to Thomas Bernhard, and is marked by the absurd and bizarre excess."
Krasznahorkai's 2021 novel "Herscht 07769" has been described as a significant contemporary German novel, owing to its precision in illustrating the country's communal unrest prior to the COVID-19.
This is a representation of a current hamlet in Thüringen, Germany, plagued by social lawlessness, murder and arson.
"Kind colossus Florian is an ward, raised by a far-right extremist who has trained him as a wall writing remover.
"His employer, a Johann Sebastian Bach devotee, is incensed that someone is using wolf emblems across the monuments to the renowned musician in their Eastern German town."
A review described it as "accordingly bleak from start to conclusion."
His latest satirical book, Zsömle Odavan, returns to Magyarország.
The protagonist is ninety-one-year-old Uncle Józsi Kada, who has a hidden entitlement to the monarchy but has made every effort to disappear from the globe.
Prior Accolades
The author before won the international Booker award.
