The Nobel prize in Literature 2025 has been awarded to Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art. ” The Nobel committee at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, Sweden made this announcement on Thursday. László Krasznahorkai was born in 1954 in the small town of Gyula in southeastern Hungary. His breakthrough came with Sátántangó (1985; Satantango, 2012), a bleak yet mesmerizing portrayal of a destitute rural community on a Hungarian collective farm. Krasznahorkai’s signature style—long, flowing sentences that capture the relentlessness of human experience—continued to evolve in works such as Az ellenállás melankóliája (1989; The Melancholy of Resistance, 1998), a feverish allegory of v

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