Magyar Writer László Krasznahorkai Wins Nobel Prize in Literary Arts
Krasznahorkai was won the Nobel Prize in Literary Arts.
The Magyar writer was honored "for his compelling and visionary body of work that, in the midst of cataclysmic terror, confirms the power of art."
The author has written five novels and garnered many further writing prizes, for instance the 2015's Booker International, and the 2013's finest rendered work honor in Narrative for his debut book "Satantango", a avant-garde work concerning the conclusion of the world.
The writer is the 2nd Magyar novelist to obtain the award subsequent to the deceased Kertesz Imre, who won in the year 2002.
Originating in 1954, László Krasznahorkai earned recognition in 1985 when he issued "Satantango", which he transformed for the cinema in the mid-1990s.
The monochrome film, by Magyar cinematographer Béla Tarr, is renowned for its seven-hour running time.
Krasznahorkai's other books include:
- "The Melancholy of Resistance" (1989)
- War & War (the late 90s)
- Seiobo Below (2008)
Nobel committee portrayed Krasznahorkai as "a great sweeping novelist in the Central European tradition that reaches through Kafka to Bernhard Thomas, and is defined by the absurd and distorted extremity."
His 2021 book "Herscht 07769" has been labeled as a major present-day Deutsch story, due to its exactness in illustrating the land's social unrest prior to the COVID-19.
It is a portrayal of a contemporary village in Thuringia, Deutschland, plagued by societal anarchy, homicide and incendiarism.
"Kind colossus Herscht Florian is an ward, raised by a radical who has mentored him as a wall writing cleaner.
"The Boss, a Bach devotee, is furious that a person is applying wolf emblems across the statues to the celebrated musician in their former GDR municipality."
One review noted it as "accordingly grim from start to end."
Krasznahorkai's latest satirical work, Zsömle Odavan, returns to the Hungarian setting.
The protagonist is 91-year-old Józsi Kada, who has a hidden right to the throne but has gone to great lengths to disappear from the world.
Earlier Accolades
Krasznahorkai before won the international Booker honor.
