Hungarian Author László Krasznahorkai Awarded Nobel Award in Literary Arts
Krasznahorkai was received the prestigious Nobel in Literary Arts.
The Magyar author was honored "for his gripping and forward-thinking body of work that, during cataclysmic fear, confirms the strength of literature."
He has authored 5 works of fiction and won many additional literary awards, such as the 2015's Booker International, and the 2013 best translated novel honor in Fiction for his first book Satantango, a avant-garde piece about the finish of the planet.
He is the second Magyar writer to pick up the prize after the former Imre Kertesz, who was awarded in the year 2002.
Brought into the world in 1954, László Krasznahorkai gained fame in 1985 when he issued Satantango, which he adapted for the cinema in the mid-1990s.
This b&w movie, by Magyar director Béla Tarr, is famous for its lengthy running time.
Krasznahorkai's additional works include:
- The Melancholy of Resistance (1989)
- War & War (1999)
- "Seiobo There Below" (2008)
Nobel committee characterized Krasznahorkai as "an exceptional grand writer in the European heritage that spans through Franz Kafka to Thomas Bernhard, and is defined by absurdist themes and grotesque extremity."
Krasznahorkai's recent book "Herscht 07769" has been labeled as a significant present-day German book, owing to its precision in illustrating the country's societal turmoil right before the global health crisis.
It's a representation of a modern village in Thüringen, Deutschland, troubled by societal lawlessness, killing and arson.
"Gentle titan Florian Herscht is an orphan, raised by a radical who has apprenticed him as a street art remover.
"The leader, a Johann Sebastian Bach fanatic, is furious that an individual is spraying wolf symbol insignias across the statues to the celebrated composer in their former GDR city."
A review noted it as "accordingly bleak from start to end."
The writer's latest satirical work, Zsömle Odavan, returns to Hungary.
The protagonist is 91-year-old Uncle Kada, who has a hidden right to the royal seat but has gone to great lengths to vanish from the planet.
Earlier Honors
Krasznahorkai before secured the international Booker Prize honor.
