Nobel Prize in Literature 2025: László Krasznahorkai
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This year’s Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Hungary’s preeminent literary genius László Krasznahorkai for ‘his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art’. Browse his work here, or listen back to our podcast from 2012 with the Nobel Laureate in conversation with Colm Tóibín.
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Krasznahorkai's extraordinary first novel is back - and more devilish than ever.Translated by George SzirtesFrom the winner of the Man Booker International PrizeIn the darkening embers of a Communist utopia, life in a desolate Hungarian…
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Translated by Ottilie MulzetA masterpiece of form and fiction as one of our greatest living writers tackles our fears of environmental disasterThe International Booker Award winner's breathtaking new novel about neo-Nazis, particle…
A Mountain to the North, A Lake to The South, Paths to the West, A River to the East
László Krasznahorkai
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Translated by Ottilie MulzetAn exquisitely beautiful novel from one of the world's greatest living writers - now in paperbackThe grandson of Prince Genji lives outside of space and time and wanders the grounds of an old monastery in…
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Translated by Ottilie MulzetOne of László Krasznahorkai's finest novels available in stunning redesigned paperbackWinner of the 2015 Man Booker International PrizeBeauty, in László Krasznahorkai's new novel,…
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Translated by George SzirtesOne of László Krasznahorkai's most loved books, published in the UK for the first timeWinner of the 2015 Man Booker International PrizeWar & War begins at a point of danger: on a dark…
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Translated by George SzirtesOne of László Krasznahorkai's finest novels available in stunning redesigned paperbackWinner of the 2015 Man Booker International PrizeThe Melancholy of Resistance, László…
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WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2019: The defining master-work of the Man Booker International winner's spectacular career, now in paperback'Baron Wenkcheim's Homecoming is a fitting capstone to Krasznahorkai's tetralogy, one of the…
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Translated by Ottilie Mulzet & George SzirtesA new masterpiece from Europe's leading literary geniusShortlisted for The Man Booker International Prize 2018A Hungarian interpreter obsessed with waterfalls, at the edge of the abyss…
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Translated by John Batki & George SzirtesNow in paperback, two masterly novellas by Europe's preeminent literary geniusIn The Last Wolf, a philosophy professor is mistakenly hired to write the true tale of the last wolf of…
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Translated from the Hungarian by John BatkiSpadework for a Palace bears the subtitle “Entering the Madness of Others” and offers an epigraph: “Reality is no obstacle.” Indeed. This high-octane…
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