Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai has been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in 1954 in Gyula, Hungary, Krasznahorkai is known for his long, powerful sentences and deep stories about people, faith, and chaos in the modern world. He is one of those writers who emphasize the important role of literature in today’s world full of problems and conflicts.

His first novel, Satantango (1985), made him famous and was later turned into a film by director Béla Tarr. Other well-known books include The Melancholy of Resistance, War & War, and Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming. His writing often mixes sadness and humor while exploring how people search for meaning in difficult times.

Krasznahorkai’s works have been translated into many languages and praised around the world for their poetic style and philosophical ideas.