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László Krasznahorkai

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Hungarian novelist and screenwriter

WritersBorn 1954 · age 72
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László Krasznahorkai is a Hungarian writer, novelist and screenwriter. Krasznahorkai is known for his difficult and demanding novels, often labeled postmodern, which explore dystopian and melancholic themes.

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Get it into your thick head that jokes are just like life. Things that begin badly, end badly. Everything's fine in the middle, it's the end you need to worry about.

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2026Artisjus Award
2025Nobel Prize in Literature
2024Prix Formentor
2023Prix Laure Bataillon
2021Austrian State Prize for European Literature
2019National Book Award for Translated Literature
2015International Booker Prize
2014Vilenica Prize
2014America Award in Literature
2008Prize of the Society of Writers
2004Kossuth Prize
2002Laureate of the Hungarian Republic
1999Alföld Prize
1998Márai Sándor Prize
1993Preis der SWR-Bestenliste
1983Móricz Zsigmond Grant

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László Krasznahorkai is a Hungarian writer, novelist and screenwriter. Krasznahorkai is known for his difficult and demanding novels, often labeled postmodern, which explore dystopian and melancholic themes. Several of his works, including his novels Satantango (1985) and The Melancholy of Resistance (1989), have been adapted into feature films by the director Béla Tarr.

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Born 1954 · age 72
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