Krasznahorkai was praised as “a great epic writer in the Central European tradition that extends through Kafka to Thomas Bernhard, characterised by absurdism and grotesque excess.”
The prize honours his “compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art,” the academy said in a statement.
The settings of Krasznahorkai’s novels span remote villages and towns in Central Europe, from Hungary to Germany, and extend to the Far East, shaped by his travels in China and Japan, the Reuters news agency reported.
He is the second Hungarian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, after Imre Kertész in 2002.
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Source: IAR, PAP, Reuters