Hungarian novelist and screenwriter László Krasznahorkai has won the Nobel Prize in Literature 2025. Several of his novels, including Sátántangó (1985) and The Melancholy of Resistance (1989), were adapted into feature films by Hungarian auteur Béla Tarr .

The Swedish Academy unveiled the honoree on Thursday. Sátántangó is the Tarr-directed 450-minute adaptation, which was featured in the Berlin Film Festival’s Forum section in 1994 where it won the Caligari award.

The honor is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, in 1895. The others are prizes in chemistry, physics and medicine, as well as the Nobel Peace Prize.

Hungarian novelist and screenwriter László Krasznahorkai has won the Nobel Prize in Literature 2

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