🔗 Share this article Magyar Author László Krasznahorkai Awarded the Nobel Award in Literary Arts Krasznahorkai was awarded the prestigious Nobel in Literature. The Hungarian writer was honored "due to his compelling and prophetic body of work that, amidst apocalyptic fear, reaffirms the might of art." He has authored five works of fiction and garnered numerous additional literary awards, for instance the 2015's International Booker Award, and the 2013's finest rendered novel prize in Narrative for his initial book Satantango, a avant-garde piece concerning the finish of the planet. He is the second Magyar novelist to obtain the honor after the deceased Imre Kertesz, who won in the year 2002. Originating in the mid-1950s, László Krasznahorkai earned acclaim in 1985 when he issued Satantango, which he converted for the cinema in the mid-1990s. The b&w movie, by Hungarian director Bela Tarr, is renowned for its seven-hour running time. The author's other novels consist of: Melancholy of Resistance (1989) "War and War" (1999) Seiobo There Below (2008) The Nobel Prize in Literature portrayed the writer as "a great epic author in the Central Europe heritage that spans via Franz Kafka to Thomas Bernhard, and is characterised by absurdist themes and distorted extremity." The author's recent novel Herscht 07769 has been labeled as a major contemporary German story, owing to its precision in depicting the nation's societal unrest just before the pandemic. It's a depiction of a current small town in Thuringia, the Federal Republic of Germany, afflicted by social chaos, homicide and arson. "Kind titan Florian is an orphan, raised by a radical who has trained him as a wall writing eraser. "His employer, a Bach fanatic, is furious that someone is using wolf symbol emblems across the statues to the famed musician in their former GDR city." A review described it as "accordingly bleak from start to finish." Krasznahorkai's most recent ironic novel, Zsömle Odavan, reverts to the Hungarian setting. The lead is 91-year-old Uncle Józsi Kada, who has a hidden claim to the throne but has made every effort to vanish from the world. Prior Accolades Krasznahorkai previously won the international Man Booker prize. Literary Works Nobel Prize Authorship