The 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature was on Thursday awarded to Hungarian novelist and screenwriter László Krasznahorkai “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.”. He is 71, and is the second writer from Hungary to win the award (after Imre Kertész in 2002).

The prestigious award, bestowed by 18 judges who make up the Swedish Academy, honours a writer’s entire body of work and is worth 11 million Swedish kronor, or about $1.17 million (about Rs 10.4 crore).

The Nobel Prize website said: “László Krasznahorkai is a great epic writer in the Central European tradition that extends through Kafka to Thomas Bernhard, and is characterised by absurdism and grotesque excess. But there are more strings to his bow, and he also looks

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