Magyar Writer László Krasznahorkai Receives Nobel Award in Literature
László Krasznahorkai has awarded the prestigious Nobel in Literary Arts.
The Magyar novelist was honored "due to his powerful and visionary body of work that, during end-times fear, confirms the power of literature."
The author has written 5 works of fiction and received countless additional writing prizes, including the 2015's Man Booker International Prize, and the 2013 best translated book award in Fiction for his first book Satantango, a contemporary work about the conclusion of the globe.
The writer is the second Magyar author to receive the prize following the late Imre Kertesz, who received in 2002.
Born in 1954, László Krasznahorkai gained fame in 1985 when he published Satantango, which he transformed for the movies in 1994.
This b&w movie, by Hungarian film-maker Béla Tarr, is famous for its 7-hour running time.
His other novels include:
- "The Melancholy of Resistance" (the late 80s)
- War and War (1999)
- Seiobo There Below (the 2000s)
The award body described Krasznahorkai as "a outstanding epic writer in the European heritage that spans by way of Franz Kafka to Bernhard Thomas, and is marked by the absurd and bizarre overindulgence."
The author's recent work Herscht 07769 has been described as a major present-day German story, due to its exactness in illustrating the country's societal turmoil just before the global health crisis.
It is a depiction of a modern village in Thüringen, Deutschland, afflicted by social lawlessness, murder and fire-setting.
"Gentle giant Herscht Florian is an ward, raised by a far-right extremist who has trained him as a street art cleaner.
"The leader, a Johann Sebastian Bach enthusiast, is enraged that an individual is spraying canine emblems across the monuments to the famed musician in their former GDR town."
A review noted it as "thus dark from start to finish."
The writer's most recent mock-heroic novel, Zsömle Odavan, returns to Magyarország.
The lead is ninety-one-year-old Józsi Kada, who has a confidential entitlement to the throne but has gone to great lengths to vanish from the globe.
Prior Awards
The author earlier received the international Booker prize.
