Or Niklas Elmed / Nobel Prize Outreach
Fur Nobel da Literatura 2025, Laszlo Krasznahorkai
The 2025 Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai, “for his engaging and visionary work which, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.” The Nobel Prize includes a diploma, a gold medal and an amount of almost 1.2 million dollars.
The Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkaiwhose philosophical and darkly humorous novels often unfold in long, continuous sentences, received this Thursday the Nobel Prize for Literature for his “engaging and visionary work that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.”
Krasznahorkai, 71 years old, is “a great epic writer of the Central European tradition that extends from Kafka to Thomas Bernhard, and is characterized by absurdity and grotesque excess”, stated the Nobel committee in .
Several of his works, including his debut novel “Satead” and “The Melancholia of Resistance”, were adapted to cinema by Hungarian director Béla Tarr, highlights the .
At the age of 71, Krasznahorkai received numerous awardsincluding the 2015 Man Booker International Prize. The Booker judges at the time highlighted their “Extraordinary sentences, of unbelievable lengthwhich follow equally incredible paths, alternating between solemn, absurd, inquisitive and desolate tones along their tortuous route.”
The writer joins a illustrious list of laureates which includes Ernest Hemingway, Toni Morrison and Kazuo Ishiguro.
The Literature prize was awarded 117 times by the Nobel Committee of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to a total of 121 winners. Last year’s award was for his work which, according to the committee, “confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”
The Literature prize is the room to be announced this weekafter this week they were credited with the discovery of macroscopic quantum tunneling, advances in the understanding of the immune system, and the development of metal-organic structures.
The winner of Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Friday. The last Nobel Prize, the Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, will be announced on Monday.
The Nobel Prize ceremonies take place on December 10, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death in 1896. Nobel was a wealthy Swedish industrialist and inventor of dynamite, who founded the prizes.
Each prize has a value of 11 million Swedish kronor (a little more than 10 million euros), and the winners also receive an 18-karat gold medal and a diploma.
