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flag Hungarian writer Laszlo Krasznahorkai won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature for his dense, Kafkaesque prose exploring societal despair.

flag 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. flag Born in 1954 in Gyula, Hungary, he began writing after a library fire destroyed his post, launching his career with 1985’s Satantango. flag His works, including The Melancholy of Resistance and Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming, explore recurring patterns of hope and collapse. flag 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. flag Despite linguistic hurdles, his fusion of Hungarian roots with universal themes continues to influence global literature.

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