Hungarian Author László Krasznahorkai Wins 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature
Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2025, the Royal Swedish Academy announced at 5 PM Bangladesh time on Thursday.
According to the Nobel Committee, Krasznahorkai was recognized “for his powerful and visionary literary work that reveals the resilience of art even in the face of harrowing circumstances.”
He is best known for his dystopian and melancholic novels, including Satantango and The Melancholy of Resistance, both of which were later adapted into films. Krasznahorkai previously won the Man Booker International Prize in 2015 and the National Book Award for Translated Literature in 2019.
Since its inception in 1901, the Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded 117 times. Recent laureates include Annie Ernaux, Bob Dylan, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Louise Glück, Peter Handke, Olga Tokarczuk, and Han Kang.
