The 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to the Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai.

The prize was awarded “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art,” said a press release from the Nobel Foundation.

"Krasznahorkai is a great epic writer in the Central European tradition that extends through Kafka to Thomas Bernhard, and is characterised by absurdism and grotesque excess. But there are more strings to his bow, and he also looks to the East in adopting a more contemplative, finely calibrated tone," the release added.

About the author

Krasznahorkai was born in 1954 in the small town of Gyula in southeast Hungary, near the Romanian border. A similar remote rural area is the scene of Krasznahorkai’s first novel

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