Laszlo Krasznahorkai's breakthrough 1985 novel Satantango, set in a remote rural area, became a literary sensation in Hungary.

Hungarian writer Laszlo Krasznahorkai won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature, the award-giving body said on Thursday, “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.”

“Laszlo Krasznahorkai is a great epic writer in the Central European tradition that extends through Kafka to Thomas Bernhard, and is characterized by absurdism and grotesque excess,” the Academy said in a statement.

“But there are more strings to his bow, and he also looks to the East in adopting a more contemplative, finely calibrated tone.”

The second Hungarian to win the prize, awarded by the Swedish Academy, after Imre Kertesz in 2

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