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.
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.
The literature prize has been awarded by the Nobel committee of the Swedish Academy 117 occasions to a complete of 121 winners. Final yr’s prize was gained by South Korean writer Han Kang for her physique of labor that the committee stated “confronts historic traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”
The literature prize is the fourth to be introduced this week, following the 2025 Nobels in medication, physics and chemistry.
The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize will likely be introduced on Friday.
The ultimate Nobel, the Nobel Memorial Prize in Financial Sciences, is to be introduced on Monday.
Nobel Prize award ceremonies are held on Dec. 10, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s loss of life in 1896. Nobel was a rich Swedish industrialist and the inventor of dynamite who based the prizes.
Every prize carries an award of 11 million Swedish kronor (practically $1.2 million), and the winners additionally obtain an 18-carat gold medal and a diploma.
Corder reported from The Hague, Netherlands.
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