László Krasznahorkai Wins 2025 Nobel Prize In Literature
October 9, 2025
9:38 am
Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai has been named the winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature, honoured for a lifetime of writing that the Swedish Academy described as “compelling and visionary” and capable of reaffirming “the power of art in the face of apocalyptic terror.”
The author, reached by phone while visiting Frankfurt, told Swedish Radio that the news left him “happy, calm and very nervous at the same time.”
Born in 1954, Krasznahorkai first gained international notice with his 1985 debut Satantango, a bleak yet darkly humorous portrayal of a collapsing rural community. The novel, later turned into a …
