His works are a reminder that great books are not always easy for readers

By Tirthankar Mitra

Laszlo Krasznahorkai, the Hungarian author whose fiction walked the tightrope between despair and grace has been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize for literature. He is the second Hungarian to win this prize.

Born in 1954 in Gyda, he came of age in the long dusk of state socialism. His debut novel, Satantango, a sprawling bleak story set in a dying collective farm became a sensation by the way it treated its subject and its philosophical heft.

His vision is not sentimental. It stands witness to guard over human dignity. His name made rounds before every Nobel season By awarding the prize to him, the importance of stolidity in a world of churn is recognised. His hallmark is his uncompromising senten

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