Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai wins Nobel Prize in literature

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By KOSTYA MANENKOV and MIKE CORDER, Related Press

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai, whose philosophical, bleakly humorous novels usually unfold in single sentences, gained the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for his for his “compelling and visionary oeuvre that, within the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the facility of artwork.”

A number of works together with his debut, “Satantango” and “The Melancholy of Resistance,” had been become movies by Hungarian director Béla Tarr.

FILE – Hungary’s Laszlo Krasznahorkai poses for photographers in London, Tuesday, Could 19, 2015. (AP Picture/Matt Dunham, File)

The Nobel judges praised his “inventive gaze which is totally freed from phantasm, and which sees by way of the fragility of the social order mixed along with his unwavering perception within the energy of artwork.”

Krasznahorkai, 71, has obtained many awards together with the 2015 Man Booker Worldwide Prize. The Booker judges praised his “extraordinary sentences, sentences of unimaginable size that go to unimaginable lengths, their tone switching from solemn to madcap to quizzical to desolate as they go their wayward approach.”

He additionally gained the Nationwide E book Award for Translated Literature within the U.S. in 2019 for “Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming.”

He’s the primary winner from Hungary since Imre Kertesz in 2002. He joins an illustrious checklist of laureates that features Ernest Hemingway, Toni Morrison and Kazuo Ishiguro.

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