Hungarian writer Laszlo Krasznahorkai, whose philosophical, bleakly funny novels often unfold in single sentences, has won the 2025 Nobel Prize in literature for his “compelling and visionary oeuvre.”

Several works including his debut, Satantango and The Melancholy of Resistance , were turned into films by Hungarian director Béla Tarr.

Krasznahorkai, 71, has received many awards including the 2015 Man Booker International Prize. The Booker judges praised his “extraordinary sentences, sentences of incredible length that go to incredible lengths, their tone switching from solemn to madcap to quizzical to desolate as they go their wayward way”.

He joins an illustrious list of laureates that includes Ernest Hemingway, Toni Morrison and Kazuo Ishiguro.

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