In line with the objective of bringing seminal authors to greater global renown, the 2025 Nobel Prize for Literature was conferred on Hungarian litterateur Laszlo Krasznahorkai, whose demanding, yet pensive, post-modern, near-surrealist works draw on the traditions of Nikolai Gogol, Frank Kafka, and Samuel Beckett, but go ahead to span both his Central European milieu and that of the mystic East.

Announcing the award, the Swedish Academy said Krasznahorkai was chosen "for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art".

The second Hungarian to win the top global literary award after Imre Kertesz in 2002, Krasznahorkai, 71, is also the first from his country to win the Man Booker International Prize in 2015.

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