Nobel Prize 2025: The Nobel Prize 2025 in Literature has been awarded to Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai on Thursday (October 9, 2025). The Nobel laureate was honoured “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.” The Hungarian author was announced as the winner at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, Sweden.
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The 2025 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.” pic.twitter.com/vVaW1zkWPS---Advertisement---— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 9, 2025
About László Krasznahorkai
László Krasznahorkai was born in the small town of Gyala in southeast Hungary in 1954. The Hungarian writer’s breakthrough came with his first novel, ‘Sátántangó, 2012’ (published in 1985), which portrays a remote rural area. The Nobel Committee described him as a “great epic writer in the Central European tradition that extends through Kafka to Thomas Bernhard, and is characterised by absurdism and grotesque excess.”
Laszlo’s second work, Az ellenállás melankóliája (1989; The Melancholy of Resistance, 1998), masterfully portrays the brutal struggle between order and disorder. Other notable epics include Háború és háború (1999; War & War, 2006), and Herscht 07769 (2021; Herscht 07769: A Novel, 2024), Báró Wenckheim hazatér (2016; Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming, 2019).
Krasznahorkai also looks to the East in “adopting a more contemplative, finely calibrated tone.” The result is a string of works inspired by the deep-seated impressions left by his journeys to China and Japan.
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