#Krasznahorkai

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Gateway Berlin: Krasznahorkai Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2025

On October 10, 2025, the Swedish Academy announced László Krasznahorkai as the recipient of this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature. A representative reached the audibly flustered laureate by phone in Frankfurt, Germany. Although he had been considered a candidate for a while, the honor humbled a writer whose childhood in 1950s Hungary hardly predicted his rise to global fame and this distinction at the age of seventy-one.

10.12.2025

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The Politics of Fiction: The Author of Satantango wins the Nobel Prize in Literature

Long considered as one of Europe’s most formidable writers, Krasznahorkai’s winning of the Nobel Prize reveals the long process that writers from East-Central Europe need for recognition. His visionary and unsettling work had an almost cult-like group of readers in Hungary already in the 1980s, but the international recognition arrived slowly. Yet through good translators and change of focus, his world of decay and irony gradually claimed its place in the global literature.

15.10.2025