Hungarian writer Laszlo Krasznahorkai awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature

Hungarian writer Laszlo Krasznahorkai won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature, the award-giving body said on Thursday.

The prize is awarded by the Swedish Academy and is worth 11 million crowns ($1.6 million Cdn).

The honour for Krasznahorkai, 71, comes a decade after he won the prestigious Man Booker International Prize. He is perhaps best known for the 1989 novel, .

Mats Malm, permanent secretary at the Swedish Academy, praised Krasznahorkai's "visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art."

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Past notable laureates in literature have included George Bernard Shaw, Ernest Heming