Hungarian László Krasznahorkai wins Nobel Prize in Literature

Twenty-three years ago, Imre Kertész won the Nobel Prize in Literature. And today, yet another Hungarian, László Krasznahorkai, has been named the recipient of the coveted prize. Hungary boasts a long history of Nobel laureates, with the most...

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Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel Prize in literature

🔊 Listen with AI Cancel Voice Updated On: Fri, 10 Oct 2025 10:33:14 PKT STOCKHOLM (AP) — Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai, whose philosophical, bleakly funny novels often unfold in single sentences, won the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday...

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Hungarian László Krasznahorkai wins Nobel literature prize

STOCKHOLM -- Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai, whose surreal and anarchic novels combine a bleak world view with mordant humor, won the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for work the judges said upholds the power of art in the midst of...

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Hungarian writer wins the Nobel Prize in literature

STOCKHOLM -- Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai, whose surreal and anarchic novels combine a bleak world view with mordant humor, won the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for work the judges said upholds the power of art in the midst of...

Hungary's Krasznahorkai, whose pensive oeuvre straddles East and West, conferred Literature Nobel

New Delhi, October 9 (IANS) In line with the objective of bringing seminal authors to greater global renown, the 2025 Nobel Prize for Literature was conferred on Hungarian litterateur Laszlo Krasznahorkai, whose demanding, yet pensive,...

Hungarian master of absurdist excess László Krasznahorkai wins Nobel literature prize

STOCKHOLM — Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai, whose surreal and anarchic novels combine a bleak world view with mordant humor, won the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for work the judges said upholds the power of art in the midst of...

Hungarian Writer Laszlo Krasznahorkai Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

Hungarian writer Laszlo Krasznahorkai at his home in Pilisszentivan, 20 kms north of Budapest, Hungary. The Swedish Academy honored Laszlo Krasznahorkai with the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature for his ‘visionary and apocalyptic prose’ on 09...

Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai gets Nobel Prize 2025 for Literature

Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai on Thursday won the Nobel Prize 2025 for Literature “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.” Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai on...

Hungarian writer Lszl Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel Prize in literature

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai, whose philosophical, bleakly funny novels often unfold in single sentences, won the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for his “compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of...

Hungarian Laszlo Krasznahorkai wins Nobel Prize for literature

Hungarian writer Laszlo Krasznahorkai is the 2025 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Swedish Academy honored Laszlo Krasznahorkai for his "visionary and apocalyptic" prose. Photo by Janos Marjai/EPA Oct. 9 (UPI) -- The Swedish Academy...

Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai awarded Nobel Prize in literature

The work that won the Nobel Prize in literature Zsuzsanna Varga, a Hungarian literature expert at the University of Glasgow, said Krasznahorkai’s apocalyptic and surreal novels probe the “utter hopelessness of the condition of human existence,”...

Hungarian novelist and screenwriter László Krasznahorkai wins the 2025 Nobel Prize for Literature

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature was on Thursday awarded to Hungarian novelist and screenwriter László Krasznahorkai “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.”. He is 71, and...

Hungarian writer receives Nobel Prize in Literature for 'visionary oeuvre'

Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, one of the world's most prestigious writing awards. The announcement was made by the Swedish Academy's Nobel Committee on Thursday, local time. The prize...

Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel Prize in literature He also won the Man Booker Prize in 2015. Books |14 minutes ago

Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai, whose philosophical, bleakly funny novels often unfold in single sentences, won the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for his “compelling and visionary oeuvre.” The Nobel judges praised his “artistic gaze...

Hungarian Author László Krasznahorkai awarded Nobel Prize in literature

Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his “visionary and powerful body of work” that, according to the Nobel Committee, “reaffirms the power of art in the midst of apocalyptic terror.”...