STOCKHOLM — Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai, celebrated for his bleakly poetic and anarchic narratives, has been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature for what the Swedish Academy called a body of work that upholds the power of art amid “apocalyptic terror.” The 71-year-old author, whose novels often unfold in single, dizzying sentences, was praised […]
Laszlo Krasznahorkai
Laszlo Krasznahorkai wins 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature
Hungarian writer Laszlo Krasznahorkai won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature, the award-giving body said on Thursday, “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art”. “Laszlo Krasznahorkai is a great epic writer in the Central European tradition that extends through Kafka to Thomas Bernhard and […]