Hungarian Author Krasznahorkai László Awarded the Nobel Award in Literary Arts
László Krasznahorkai has received the Nobel Prize in Literature.
This Magyar author was honored "due to his powerful and forward-thinking body of work that, amidst end-times terror, asserts the strength of creative expression."
The author has produced five works of fiction and won numerous other literary awards, such as the 2015 Booker International, and the 2013 best rendered work award in Narrative for his first novel Satantango, a avant-garde work concerning the conclusion of the globe.
The writer is the second Hungarian writer to obtain the honor after the former Kertesz Imre, who won in 2002.
Originating in the mid-1950s, Krasznahorkai obtained fame in 1985 when he published "Satantango", which he converted for the movies in the mid-1990s.
This b&w movie, by Hungarian film-maker Bela Tarr, is notable for its 7-hour running time.
His other works include:
- Melancholy of Resistance (1989)
- "War and War" (the late 90s)
- Seiobo There Below (the 2000s)
The award body characterized the writer as "a exceptional sweeping writer in the European custom that extends via Franz Kafka to Thomas Bernhard, and is marked by absurdism and distorted overindulgence."
His recent novel Herscht 07769 has been called as a major contemporary German novel, because of its accuracy in depicting the land's communal unrest just before the COVID-19.
This is a depiction of a contemporary hamlet in Thüringen, Germany, troubled by social anarchy, homicide and incendiarism.
"Kind giant Herscht Florian is an ward, raised by a radical who has trained him as a graffiti remover.
"The Boss, a Bach enthusiast, is enraged that a person is spraying wolf emblems across the monuments to the famed artist in their east German town."
One critique remarked it as "therefore dark from start to end."
The writer's most recent ironic work, Zsömle Odavan, reverts to the Hungarian setting.
The lead is 91-year-old Józsi Kada, who has a confidential right to the royal seat but has made every effort to disappear from the world.
Prior Awards
Krasznahorkai before received the international Booker Prize award.
