László Krasznahorkai

László Krasznahorkai was born in Gyula on 5 January 1954, the son of a lawyer and a social security employee; he learned of his father's Jewish origins only at the age of eleven. He began studying law, then studied literature in Budapest and in 1983 defended a thesis on the exile work of Sándor Márai. Employed at the Gondolat publishing house from 1977 to 1982, he then lived by his pen; his stays in Mongolia, China and then Kyoto left their mark on his work. Winner of the Man Booker International Prize in 2015 and the Formentor Prize in 2024, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2025.

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• NovelSatantangoSátántangóLászló Krasznahorkai · 1985Literature