Nobel Prize in Literature, 2025

• On October 9, Hungarian novelist and screenwriter László Krasznahorkai was awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature.
• The announcement was made by the Nobel Committee of the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, Sweden.
• The award was given for his compelling and visionary work, which affirms the power of art amid apocalyptic terror.
• László Krasznahorkai is a great epic writer in the Central European tradition, which stretches from Kafka to Thomas Bernhard and is marked by absurdity and grotesque excess.
• Krasznahorkai is the second Hungarian to win the prize, after Imre Kertész in 2002.
• He will receive a cash prize of US$1.2 million.