The award of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature to the Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai honours the work of a writer who has been unwavering in his devotion to the art of writing.
During his career, he has teased out the possibilities of artistic expression and sought to remake or reinvigorate multiple forms of storytelling.
From his first novel Satantango, published in 1985 – and translated by the Hungarian poet George Szirtes into English in 2012 – to subsequent fictions such as The Melancholy of Resistance (1998), War & War (2006), Seiobo There Below (2013) and Herscht 07769 (2024), Krasznahorkai has tested the limits of language and the novel form.
His works, however, are not empt
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