Magyar Author Krasznahorkai László Awarded Nobel Award in Literary Arts
László Krasznahorkai has received the Nobel Prize in Literature.
This Hungarian novelist was honored "for his powerful and forward-thinking collection that, in the midst of cataclysmic dread, asserts the power of art."
He has written five novels and received many other writing prizes, such as the 2015 Booker International, and the 2013's top translated novel prize in Narrative for his debut novel "Satantango", a postmodern creation about the end of the world.
The writer is the 2nd Hungarian novelist to pick up the prize after the deceased Imre Kertesz, who received in the year 2002.
Born in the mid-1950s, László Krasznahorkai obtained recognition in 1985 when he released "Satantango", which he adapted for the cinema in 1994.
The monochrome movie, by Hungarian cinematographer Béla Tarr, is notable for its lengthy duration.
His other novels consist of:
- The Melancholy of Resistance (1989)
- War and War (1999)
- "Seiobo There Below" (2008)
The Nobel Prize in Literature described the writer as "an outstanding sweeping author in the Central Europe tradition that spans through Kafka to Thomas Bernhard, and is marked by absurdism and grotesque excess."
His recent book Herscht 07769 has been labeled as a significant modern German book, owing to its exactness in illustrating the country's communal upheaval right before the global health crisis.
This is a representation of a contemporary hamlet in Thüringen, Germany, troubled by societal chaos, killing and incendiarism.
"Gentle colossus Herscht Florian is an orphan, taken in by a far-right extremist who has apprenticed him as a wall writing eraser.
"The leader, a Johann Sebastian Bach fanatic, is enraged that a person is using wolf symbol emblems across the statues to the celebrated musician in their east German town."
One critique remarked it as "thus dark from start to end."
The writer's most recent mock-heroic work, Zsömle Odavan, reverts to Hungary.
The lead is ninety-one-year-old Uncle Józsi Kada, who has a hidden claim to the monarchy but has gone to great lengths to disappear from the globe.
Earlier Honors
He previously won the worldwide Man Booker honor.
