Hungarian Author Krasznahorkai László Receives the Nobel Award in Literary Arts
The Hungarian writer has won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
This Magyar novelist was celebrated "for his powerful and forward-thinking oeuvre that, during cataclysmic dread, asserts the strength of art."
Krasznahorkai has written 5 novels and garnered many additional literary prizes, for instance the 2015's International Booker Award, and the 2013's finest translated novel honor in Fiction for his debut novel Satantango, a contemporary creation about the finish of the planet.
The writer is the next Magyar writer to receive the award following the former Imre Kertesz, who won in 2002.
Born in 1954, László Krasznahorkai gained fame in 1985 when he issued Satantango, which he adapted for the cinema in the mid-1990s.
The monochrome drama, by Hungarian cinematographer Bela Tarr, is famous for its 7-hour running time.
His other books consist of:
- Melancholy of Resistance (1989)
- War & War (the late 90s)
- "Seiobo There Below" (2008)
The Nobel Prize in Literature portrayed Krasznahorkai as "a exceptional epic author in the Central Europe custom that spans via Franz Kafka to Bernhard Thomas, and is defined by absurdist themes and grotesque overindulgence."
The author's 2021 work "Herscht 07769" has been described as a great contemporary Deutsch story, due to its exactness in portraying the nation's societal upheaval just before the global health crisis.
It is a portrayal of a modern small town in Thuringia, Deutschland, afflicted by social anarchy, murder and arson.
"Kind titan Florian is an orphan, raised by a far-right extremist who has trained him as a street art cleaner.
"His employer, a Bach fanatic, is furious that a person is applying wolf symbol insignias across the statues to the famed composer in their former GDR town."
A critique noted it as "thus bleak from beginning to conclusion."
Krasznahorkai's latest mock-heroic work, Zsömle Odavan, goes back to Magyarország.
The lead is 91-year-old Józsi Kada, who has a secret claim to the royal seat but has gone to great lengths to fade away from the planet.
Prior Accolades
Krasznahorkai earlier secured the international Booker honor.
