Hungarian writer Laszlo Krasznahorkai wins 2025 Nobel Prize in literature
Hungarian author Laszlo Krasznahorkai, whose philosophical, bleakly comic novels often unfold in single sentences, has won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature for his “engaging and visionary works.”
Many works, including his debut deviltango And The Melancholy of ResistanceIt was made into a film by Hungarian director Béla Tarr.
Hungarian writer Laszlo Krasznahorkai, shot in 2015.Credit: access point
Krasznahorkai, 71, has received many awards, including the 2015 Man Booker International Prize. The Booker jury praised his “extraordinary sentences, his sentences going to incredible lengths, his sentences going to incredible lengths, his tones shifting from serious to frenzied, sarcastic and desolate as he continues his rebellious ways.”
He joins a list of famous award winners that includes Ernest Hemingway, Toni Morrison and Kazuo Ishiguro.
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The literature prize was awarded 117 times to a total of 121 people by the Nobel Committee of the Swedish Academy. Last year’s award went to South Korean author Han Kang for his work, which the committee said “confronts historical traumas and reveals the fragility of human life.”
The literature prize is the fourth prize announced this week, following the 2025 Nobel prizes in medicine, physics and chemistry.
The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Friday.
The final Nobel, the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, will be announced on Monday.
