Overview

• The Academy honored Krasznahorkai for an irresistible, visionary body of work that affirms art's power in the face of apocalyptic terror.
• Permanent Secretary Mats Malm said he reached the author by telephone in Frankfurt to inform him of the award.
• Krasznahorkai is the second Hungarian to win the literature Nobel, following Imre Kertész in 2002.
• The prize will be formally presented on 10 December in Stockholm and is worth 11 million Swedish kronor.
• The 71-year-old is known for works such as Sátántangó and The Melancholy of Resistance and has previously won the International Booker (2015) and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature (2021).