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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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Faces of Krasznahorkai

László Krasznahorkai’s complex world is rooted in Central Europe and its literatures, where absurdity and beauty coexist, yet circulate globally. Krasznahorkai’s vision resists mainstream simplification and confronts the “stupidity” of modern civilization. Through dialogues between literature, film, and visual arts, Imre József Balázs traces how an artist’s work transforms despair into a haunting affirmation of art’s enduring power.

28.10.2025

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A Paranational World — Naturalization, Fiction and Edges of Nationality

In conversation with RevDem editor Kasia Krzyżanowska, Dr. Stephanie DeGooyer discusses her recent publication Before Borders: A Legal and Literary History of Naturalization (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022).

15.05.2023