The 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Hungarian writer László Krasnahorkai
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Hungarian writer László Krasnahorkai — “for his fascinating and visionary work, which in the midst of apocalyptic horror confirms the power of art”. This was reported by the Nobel Committee on October 9.
The Nobel Committee emphasizes that László Krasnahorkai continues the Central European literary tradition, the roots of which go back to the works of Franz Kafka and Thomas Bernhard. His prose is characterized by absurdity and grotesqueness.
The writer was born in 1954 in the town of Gyula in the south-east of Hungary, near the border with Romania. His debut novel “Satanango” (1985), set in a remote rural area, became a literary sensation in Hungary and was later followed by a film of the same name.
Not a single work of Krasnagorkai has yet been translated into Ukrainian, but the publishing house “Komora” already announced the publication of his novel “Melancholia resistance” this year.
“A powerful, surreal and grandiose novel about strange events in a troubled Hungarian town, where the apocalyptic atmosphere is created by the arrival of a circus with a mysterious performance. Written in 1989, when the Eastern Bloc was experiencing great social unrest, the book is a political allegory. “Melancholy of resistance” is a comedy of the apocalypse, a book about God, who not only failed, but did not even appear for the exam, – the publisher noted.
