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László Krasznahorkai, the author of acclaimed novels including “The Melancholy of Resistance” and “Satantango,” was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature Thursday. The Swedish Academy said it had bestowed one of literature’s most prestigious honors on the 71-year-old Hungarian for his “compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.”

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Krasznahorkai, hailed by critic Susan Sontag as the “contemporary master of the Apocalypse,” had been a “perennial favorite for the Nobel,” The New York Times said. Fellow writers have long “revered” him for his “idiosyncratic style and bleak narratives that can often be slyly humorous.” His novels probe the “utter hopelessness” of human existence in near-endless sentences,

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