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Hungarian writer Laszlo Krasznahorkai has been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature

Critics have hailed Krasznahorkai as ‘the angry prophet of the apocalypse'

The Nobel Laureate grew up in Soviet-era Hungary in the 60s and late 70s

“...All normal expectations went by the board and one’s daily habits were disrupted by a sense of ever-spreading all-consuming chaos which rendered the future unpredictable, the past unrecallable and ordinary life so haphazard that people simply assumed that whatever could be imagined might come to pass, that if there were only one door in a building it would no longer open, that wheat would grow head downwards into the earth not out of it, and that, since once could only note the symptoms of disintegration, the reasons for it

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