Magyar Writer Krasznahorkai László Awarded Nobel Award in Literary Arts
Krasznahorkai was won the prestigious Nobel in Literature.
The Hungarian author was celebrated "for his compelling and prophetic body of work that, amidst end-times dread, asserts the might of creative expression."
He has written 5 works of fiction and received countless other writing honors, such as the 2015's International Booker Award, and the 2013 top rendered novel award in Fiction for his first novel "Satantango", a postmodern piece concerning the conclusion of the globe.
The writer is the 2nd Magyar author to receive the honor following the late Imre Kertesz, who received in the year 2002.
Originating in 1954, the author obtained fame in 1985 when he published Satantango, which he converted for the cinema in the mid-1990s.
This monochrome movie, by Magyar director Tarr Bela, is famous for its lengthy running time.
The author's additional books comprise:
- "The Melancholy of Resistance" (the late 80s)
- War & War (the late 90s)
- Seiobo Below (2008)
The Nobel Prize in Literature portrayed Krasznahorkai as "an great grand novelist in the European heritage that spans through Franz Kafka to Thomas Bernhard, and is characterised by absurdism and distorted excess."
Krasznahorkai's recent book "Herscht 07769" has been called as a significant contemporary Deutsch novel, because of its accuracy in illustrating the land's societal unrest right before the COVID-19.
This is a representation of a contemporary village in Thuringia, the Federal Republic of Germany, afflicted by societal lawlessness, murder and arson.
"Gentle titan Florian is an orphan, raised by a radical who has mentored him as a street art eraser.
"The leader, a Bach devotee, is enraged that someone is spraying wolf symbol insignias across the statues to the celebrated composer in their Eastern German town."
One assessment described it as "thus dark from start to end."
His newest mock-heroic work, Zsömle Odavan, returns to Magyarország.
The main character is ninety-one-year-old Uncle Józsi Kada, who has a secret entitlement to the monarchy but has taken extreme measures to fade away from the world.
Prior Honors
The author earlier secured the international Booker Prize prize.
