The 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to the Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai for 'his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art'

László Krasznahorkai was born in 1954, in the small town of Gyula.

Krasznahorkai's breakthrough work, Sátántangó, published in 1985 was a literary sensation in Hungary and later turned in to a seven hour long film in collaboration with the director Béla Tarr.

Since then he has created a body of work exploring the collapse of order and the persistence of hope in a chaotic world.

Across all his writing, Krasznahorkai stands as one of contemporary literature’s most original voices whose work unites despair and grace in equal measure.