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 Swedish Academy in Stockholm announced the prize on Thursday, praising him as a writer who “finds beauty in ruin and transcendence in decay.” In an age obsessed with speed, Krasznahorkai is a writer of slowness — a cartographer of despair who makes the end of the world sound almost symphonic. Krasznahorkai has long carried both the weight and the warmth of the Kafka comparison. The New York Times called him “a writer of haunting, Kafkaesque intensity.” The Guardian described him as “the Hungarian master of apocalypse.” Translator George Szirtes wrote that his books “come from t

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