Magyar Author László Krasznahorkai Wins Nobel Award in Literary Arts
László Krasznahorkai has awarded the prestigious Nobel in Literary Arts.
The Magyar author was celebrated "for his compelling and forward-thinking oeuvre that, in the midst of cataclysmic terror, reaffirms the strength of art."
The author has produced five novels and received countless other writing awards, such as the 2015 Booker International, and the 2013's best translated work award in Fiction for his debut novel "Satantango", a postmodern work about the conclusion of the planet.
He is the second Magyar novelist to pick up the honor after the deceased Kertesz Imre, who won in 2002.
Originating in 1954, Krasznahorkai earned fame in 1985 when he published Satantango, which he adapted for the big screen in the mid-1990s.
This monochrome movie, by Magyar cinematographer Béla Tarr, is notable for its lengthy running time.
The author's additional novels consist of:
- "The Melancholy of Resistance" (1989)
- War and War (1999)
- Seiobo Below (2008)
Nobel committee characterized Krasznahorkai as "a great epic author in the European tradition that reaches by way of Kafka to Thomas Bernhard, and is marked by the absurd and bizarre overindulgence."
Krasznahorkai's 2021 book "Herscht 07769" has been called as a significant modern German story, due to its precision in portraying the land's social upheaval prior to the pandemic.
It is a depiction of a contemporary hamlet in Thüringen, Germany, afflicted by social chaos, murder and arson.
"Gentle colossus Herscht Florian is an parentless child, taken in by a neo-Nazi who has apprenticed him as a street art cleaner.
"The leader, a Bach enthusiast, is enraged that someone is using wolf symbol insignias across the memorials to the renowned composer in their east German city."
One critique remarked it as "therefore grim from beginning to conclusion."
Krasznahorkai's newest ironic work, Zsömle Odavan, returns to the Hungarian setting.
The protagonist is elderly Józsi Kada, who has a hidden claim to the throne but has gone to great lengths to vanish from the world.
Earlier Honors
He previously received the international Booker Prize prize.
