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Hungarian writer Laszlo Krasznahorkai won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature for his dense, Kafkaesque prose exploring societal despair.
Hungarian novelist Laszlo Krasznahorkai, awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature, is recognized for his dense, Kafkaesque prose marked by long, uninterrupted sentences and themes of societal entrapment and cyclical despair.
Born in 1954 in Gyula, Hungary, he began writing after a library fire destroyed his post, launching his career with 1985’s Satantango.
His works, including The Melancholy of Resistance and Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming, explore recurring patterns of hope and collapse.
Translators like Yu Zemin highlight challenges in rendering his unique style—featuring "matryoshka" and "train-style" sentences, ambiguous pronouns, and comma-based dialogue—into Chinese.
Despite linguistic hurdles, his fusion of Hungarian roots with universal themes continues to influence global literature.
El escritor húngaro Laszlo Krasznahorkai ganó el Premio Nobel de Literatura de 2025 por su densa prosa kafkiana que explora la desesperación social.