László Krasznahorkai

László Krasznahorkai is the recipient of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was born in Gyula, Hungary, in 1954. He is the author of nine novels and several shorter books, including The Last Wolf and collections of essays and short stories. His novels include Satantango, The Melancholy of Resistance, War and War, Seiobo There Below, The Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming, Herscht07769 and Zsolme is Gone . He has won numerous literary prizes, including the most prestigious  Hungarian award, the Kossuth Prize, the Best Book of the Year Award in Germany in 1993, the International Man Booker Prize in 2015, the US National Book Award for Translated Literature in 2019, the Libri Prize in 2022 and the Prix Formentor in 2024 for his full body of work. He collaborated closely with Béla Tarr on the adaptations of Satantango and the Melancholy of Resistance (Werckmeister Harmonies) as well as on the film The Turin Horse. He has also collaborated with the artist Max Numann on illustrated works such as Animalinside and Chasing Homer.  His new novel, The Security of the Hungarian Nation, is being published in late 2025.   His work was published in forty two languages before he won the Nobel Prize in Literature 2025. He lives in Hungary.