New Delhi, Oct. 9 -- The 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Hungarian author Laszló Krasznahorkai on Thursday (October 9) "for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art."

Who is Laszló Krasznahorkai?

Laszló Krasznahorkai - awarded the 2025 #NobelPrize in Literature - was born in 1954 in the small town of Gyula in southeast Hungary, near the Romanian border. A similar remote rural area is the scene of Krasznahorkai's first novel 'Satantangó', published in 1985 ('Satantango', 2012), which was a literary sensation in Hungary and the author's breakthrough work.

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