Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai has won this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature. He was born in 1954 in the small town of Gyula in southeast Hungary, near the Romanian border. Here are some of his major works as listed by Anders Olsson, Chair of the Nobel Committee:

1. Sátántangó (1985; Satantango, 2012)

Olsson writes that Krasznahorkai’s first novel, Sátántangó, published in 1985, was a literary sensation in Hungary and the author’s breakthrough work. The novel portrays, in powerfully suggestive terms, a destitute group of residents on an abandoned collective farm in the Hungarian countryside just before the fall of communism. Silence and anticipation reign, until the charismatic Irimiás and his crony Petrina, who were believed by all to be dead, suddenly appear on the scene. To th

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