László Krasznahorkai Hungarian writer Awarded Nobel Prize In Literature.

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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in literature to Hungarian novelist and screenwriter László Krasznahorkai. He is the second Hungarian to win the prestigious literary award. László Krasznahorkai, 71, was recognised ‘for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art’.

He was born in the small southeastern Hungarian town of Gyula. László Krasznahorkai draws inspiration from his experiences under communism and extensive travels he undertook after first moving abroad in 1987 to West Berlin.

His novels, short stories are best known in Germany, where he lived for long periods. In Hungary, he is considered by many as the country’s most important living author. László Krasznahorkai once described his own style as ‘reality examined to the point of madness’. His penchant for long sentences and few paragraph breaks has also seen him labelled as ‘obsessive’.