Hungarian Author László Krasznahorkai Receives the Nobel Prize in Literary Arts
László Krasznahorkai has awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
This Hungarian novelist was honored "for his gripping and visionary collection that, amidst apocalyptic terror, asserts the power of creative expression."
Krasznahorkai has produced five books and won many other writing awards, including the 2015's Booker International, and the 2013's best translated book prize in Narrative for his initial book Satantango, a contemporary work concerning the conclusion of the planet.
The writer is the 2nd Hungarian author to pick up the honor subsequent to the former Kertesz Imre, who received in 2002.
Brought into the world in the mid-1950s, László Krasznahorkai earned acclaim in 1985 when he published Satantango, which he adapted for the cinema in the mid-1990s.
The b&w movie, by Magyar cinematographer Béla Tarr, is renowned for its lengthy duration.
His further books comprise:
- The Melancholy of Resistance (1989)
- "War and War" (1999)
- Seiobo There Below (the 2000s)
The award body characterized the writer as "a outstanding sweeping author in the Central Europe tradition that spans through Kafka to Thomas Bernhard, and is defined by absurdist themes and bizarre overindulgence."
His recent book Herscht 07769 has been labeled as a great present-day Deutsch book, owing to its accuracy in illustrating the country's social unrest just before the pandemic.
It's a depiction of a contemporary village in Thüringen, Germany, afflicted by social chaos, homicide and arson.
"Gentle giant Florian is an orphan, raised by a far-right extremist who has apprenticed him as a street art remover.
"The Boss, a Johann Sebastian Bach devotee, is enraged that a person is spraying canine symbols across the statues to the famed composer in their Eastern German municipality."
A critique described it as "thus grim from beginning to finish."
His latest ironic book, Zsömle Odavan, reverts to the Hungarian setting.
The lead is ninety-one-year-old Uncle Kada, who has a secret claim to the royal seat but has gone to great lengths to disappear from the planet.
Earlier Honors
The author earlier won the global Booker Prize prize.
