Hungarian Author Krasznahorkai László Receives the Nobel Prize in Literature

Krasznahorkai was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literary Arts.

This Hungarian author was honored "for his gripping and visionary oeuvre that, amidst apocalyptic dread, reaffirms the might of creative expression."

He has written five novels and received many other literary honors, for instance the 2015's Booker International, and the 2013 finest translated book prize in Narrative for his debut novel "Satantango", a contemporary work about the finish of the planet.

He is the 2nd Hungarian author to pick up the prize after the former Imre Kertesz, who won in the year 2002.

Brought into the world in 1954, Krasznahorkai gained acclaim in 1985 when he released Satantango, which he converted for the cinema in the mid-1990s.

The b&w film, by Magyar director Béla Tarr, is famous for its seven-hour length.

His other works consist of:

The Melancholy of Resistance (the late 80s)
"War and War" (1999)
Seiobo There Below (2008)

The award body described him as "a exceptional sweeping author in the European tradition that spans via Franz Kafka to Thomas Bernhard, and is marked by the absurd and distorted excess."

Krasznahorkai's recent work "Herscht 07769" has been described as a major modern Deutsch story, due to its accuracy in illustrating the country's communal upheaval right before the COVID-19.

This is a portrayal of a current small town in Thüringen, Deutschland, plagued by societal chaos, murder and fire-setting.

"Kind colossus Florian is an parentless child, adopted by a neo-Nazi who has trained him as a street art eraser.

"The Boss, a Bach devotee, is furious that a person is using canine emblems across the statues to the famed composer in their Eastern German municipality."

A critique remarked it as "accordingly dark from beginning to finish."

Krasznahorkai's newest ironic work, Zsömle Odavan, reverts to Hungary.

The protagonist is elderly Uncle Józsi Kada, who has a secret right to the throne but has taken extreme measures to vanish from the planet.