Literature 2025 · Announced Oct 9
A novelist of the end of the world, in very long sentences.
One winner
In plain words
Krasznahorkai is a Hungarian writer. His novels are dark, strange and funny, often set in small towns falling apart. Some sentences run for pages.
Why it matters
He shows how art can still matter when everything seems to be ending.
The official reason
"for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art"
The winners
40
years from his first novel (1985) to the prize
The long road
- 1985First novel: Satantango.
- 1989The Melancholy of Resistance.
- 1994Béla Tarr's seven-hour film of Satantango.
- 2015Wins the Man Booker International Prize.
- 2025Nobel Prize in Literature.