László Krasznahorkai

László Krasznahorkai
László Krasznahorkai
Born	5 January 1954; Gyula, Békés County, Hungary
Occupation	Novelist, screenwriter
Language	Hungarian, German
Alma mater	Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) (University of Budapest) ; József Attila University (JATE) (University of Szeged)
Period	1985–present
Genre	novels, short stories, screenplays
Literary movement	Postmodernism
Notable works	Satantango (1985); The Melancholy of Resistance (1989); War and War (1999); Seiobo There Below (2008)
Notable awards	Man Booker International Prize; Kossuth Prize; Nobel Prize in Literature
Spouse	Anikó Pelyhe (m. 1990, divorced); Dóra Kopcsányi (m. 1997)
Children	three (Kata, Ágnes, and Panni)
Website
	krasznahorkai.hu

László Krasznahorkai (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈlaːsloː ˈkrɒsnɒhorkɒi]; born 5 January 1954) is a Hungarian novelist and screenwriter. He is known for his hard novels. They are usually postmodern, with dystopian themes.^[3] Several of his works, such as Satantango (Sátántangó, 1985) and The Melancholy of Resistance (Az ellenállás melankóliája, 1989), have been made into movies.

For his work, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2025.^[4]^[5]

Personal life: "He lived for long periods", or a lot, in Germany, according to media.^[6]

References

1 2 Krasznahorkai biography (official website) (Retrieved 9 August 2012).
↑ "Krasznahorkai, Laszlo 1954–". Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series. Vol. 158. 2007. Retrieved 16 September 2012.
↑ Wood, James (4 July 2011). "Madness and Civilization: The very strange fictions of László Krasznahorkai". The New Yorker. Vol. 87, no. 19. pp. 71–75.
↑ "Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai wins Nobel Prize for Literature". www.bbc.com. 2025-10-09. Retrieved 2025-10-09.
↑ Marshall, Alex (9 October 2025). "Laszlo Krasznahorkai Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature". The New York Times.
↑ https://www.bangkokpost.com/life/arts-and-entertainment/3118509/hungarys-krasznahorkai-master-of-the-apocalypse-wins-literature-nobel. Retrieved 2025-10-10

[Krasz-BIO-1] 1 2 Krasznahorkai biography (official website) (Retrieved 9 August 2012).

[Krasz-CA-2] "Krasznahorkai, Laszlo 1954–". Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series. Vol. 158. 2007. Retrieved 16 September 2012.

[3] Wood, James (4 July 2011). "Madness and Civilization: The very strange fictions of László Krasznahorkai". The New Yorker. Vol. 87, no. 19. pp. 71–75.

[4] "Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai wins Nobel Prize for Literature". www.bbc.com. 2025-10-09. Retrieved 2025-10-09.

[5] Marshall, Alex (9 October 2025). "Laszlo Krasznahorkai Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature". The New York Times.

[6] ttps://www.bangkokpost.com/life/arts-and-entertainment/3118509/hungarys-krasznahorkai-master-of-the-apocalypse-wins-literature-nobel. Retrieved 2025-10-10

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Winners of Nobel Prize in Literature
1901 – 1925	Prudhomme (1901) · Mommsen (1902) · Bjørnson (1903) · F. Mistral / Echegaray (1904) · Sienkiewicz (1905) · Carducci (1906) · Kipling (1907) · Eucken (1908) · Lagerlöf (1909) · Heyse (1910) · Maeterlinck (1911) · Hauptmann (1912) · Tagore (1913) · No award (1914) · Rolland (1915) · Heidenstam (1916) · Gjellerup / Pontoppidan (1917) · No award (1918) · Spitteler (1919) · Hamsun (1920) · France (1921) · Benavente (1922) · Yeats (1923) · Reymont (1924) · Shaw (1925)
1926 – 1950	Deledda (1926) · Bergson (1927) · Undset (1928) · Mann (1929) · Lewis (1930) · Karlfeldt (1931) · Galsworthy (1932) · Bunin (1933) · Pirandello (1934) · No award (1935) · O'Neill (1936) · Martin du Gard (1937) · Buck (1938) · Sillanpää (1939) · No awards (World War II) · Jensen (1944) · G. Mistral (1945) · Hesse (1946) · Gide (1947) · Eliot (1948) · Faulkner (1949) · Russell (1950)
1951 – 1975	Lagerkvist (1951) · Mauriac (1952) · Churchill (1953) · Hemingway (1954) · Laxness (1955) · Jiménez (1956) · Camus (1957) · Pasternak (1958) · Quasimodo (1959) · Perse (1960) · Andrić (1961) · Steinbeck (1962) · Seferis (1963) · Sartre (1964) · Sholokhov (1965) · Agnon / Sachs (1966) · Asturias (1967) · Kawabata (1968) · Beckett (1969) · Solzhenitsyn (1970) · Neruda (1971) · Böll (1972) · White (1973) · Johnson / Martinson (1974) · Montale (1975)
1976 – 2000	Bellow (1976) · Aleixandre (1977) · Singer (1978) · Elytis (1979) · Miłosz (1980) · Canetti (1981) · García Márquez (1982) · Golding (1983) · Seifert (1984) · Simon (1985) · Soyinka (1986) · Brodsky (1987) · Mahfouz (1988) · Cela (1989) · Paz (1990) · Gordimer (1991) · Walcott (1992) · Morrison (1993) · Ōe (1994) · Heaney (1995) · Szymborska (1996) · Fo (1997) · Saramago (1998) · Grass (1999) · Gao (2000)
2001 – present	Naipaul (2001) · Kertész (2002) · Coetzee (2003) · Jelinek (2004) · Pinter (2005) · Pamuk (2006) · Lessing (2007) · Le Clézio (2008) · Müller (2009) · Vargas Llosa (2010) · Tranströmer (2011) · Mo (2012) · Munro (2013) · Modiano (2014) · Alexievich (2015) · Dylan (2016) · Ishiguro (2017) · No formal award Condé (New Academy Prize) (2018) · Tokarczuk (2018) · Handke (2019) · Glück (2020) · Gurnah (2021) · Ernaux (2022) · Fosse (2023) · Kang (2024) · Krasznahorkai (2025)