Magyar Author László Krasznahorkai Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literary Arts
László Krasznahorkai has received the prestigious Nobel in Literature.
The Magyar author was celebrated "due to his gripping and visionary oeuvre that, during end-times fear, reaffirms the might of art."
Krasznahorkai has authored five works of fiction and won many further writing awards, for instance the 2015 International Booker Award, and the 2013's best rendered book award in Fiction for his first novel Satantango, a contemporary work regarding the finish of the planet.
Krasznahorkai is the second Magyar author to pick up the award after the former Kertesz Imre, who received in 2002.
Originating in 1954, the author gained recognition in the mid-1980s when he issued Satantango, which he adapted for the cinema in 1994.
This black-and-white film, by Magyar cinematographer Bela Tarr, is notable for its 7-hour length.
The author's additional books include:
- Melancholy of Resistance (1989)
- War & War (1999)
- "Seiobo There Below" (the 2000s)
Nobel committee characterized the writer as "an exceptional grand writer in the Central Europe tradition that extends through Franz Kafka to Thomas Bernhard, and is characterised by absurdist themes and bizarre overindulgence."
The author's 2021 novel Herscht 07769 has been labeled as a major modern German story, owing to its precision in portraying the nation's societal unrest just before the global health crisis.
It's a portrayal of a modern small town in Thuringia, Deutschland, afflicted by societal lawlessness, murder and fire-setting.
"Gentle titan Florian is an parentless child, taken in by a far-right extremist who has trained him as a street art cleaner.
"The leader, a Bach fanatic, is incensed that someone is spraying wolf symbol emblems across the statues to the renowned musician in their east German city."
A critique remarked it as "thus bleak from beginning to end."
The writer's newest mock-heroic book, "Zsömle Odavan", goes back to the Hungarian setting.
The lead is 91-year-old Józsi Kada, who has a secret claim to the royal seat but has made every effort to vanish from the world.
Earlier Honors
He earlier secured the worldwide Booker Prize honor.