Nobel Prize in Literature 2025 awarded to Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai

STOCKHOLM: The 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Hungarian novelist and screenwriter László Krasznahorkai. The Royal Swedish Academy said his “powerful and visionary works affirm the strength of art amid disaster and despair.” The award carries a prize money of 11 million Swedish kronor (around Rs 10.38 crore).

Krasznahorkai is known for his complex, postmodern novels that explore themes such as anxiety, chaos, and melancholy. His debut novel, “Satantango,” was published in 1985 and later translated into English in 2012 by British writer George Szirtes. His other acclaimed work, “The Melancholy of Resistance,” also received wide recognition.

Born on January 5, 1954, in Gyula, Hungary, Krasznahorkai, now 71, comes from a middle-class Jewish family. He was the first Hungarian writer to win the International Booker Prize (2015) and is now the second Hungarian author to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, after Imre Kertész, who received it in 2002.