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László Krasznahorkai (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈlaːsloː ˈkrɒsnɒhorkɒi]; born 5 January 1954) is a Hungarian novelist and screenwriter known for difficult and demanding novels, often labeled postmodern, with dystopian and melancholic themes. [3]
Sep 16, 2021 · László Krasznahorkai is probably the best-known contemporary Hungarian author. His work has received the International Booker Prize in 2015, the National Book Award for Translated Literature in 2019, and the America Award for a lifetime contribution to international writing in 2014, among many others.
Jun 27, 2011 · It might look like the fiction of László Krasznahorkai, the difficult, peculiar, obsessive, visionary Hungarian author of many works of fiction, only two of which are available in English ...
László Krasznahorkai is a Hungarian novelist and screenwriter who is known for critically difficult and demanding novels, often labelled as postmodern, with dystopian and bleak melancholic themes. He is probably best known through the oeuvre of the director Béla Tarr, who has collaborated with him on several movies.
Sep 18, 2019 · The playful, pessimistic fictions of the Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai emit a recognizably entropic music. His novels—equal parts artful attenuation and digressive deluge—suggest a Beckettian impulse overwhelmed by obsessive proclivities.
László Krasznahorkai was born in Gyula, Hungary, in 1954, and has written five novels and several collections of essays and short stories. Until recently, at least in the English-speaking world, he was probably best known through the oeuvre of the film director Béla Tarr, with whom he has collaborated on several films over three decades ...
Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai's literary signature is his disenchantment with the period, “the dot” that he considers “an artificial border between sentences.”
László Krasznahorkai was born in 1954 in Gyula, a provincial town in Hungary, in the Soviet era. He published his first novel, Satantango, in 1985, then The Melancholy of Resistance (1989), War and War (1999), and Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming (2016).
Dec 11, 2019 · László Krasznahorkai’s Catastrophic Harmonies. The winner of the National Book Award for Translated Literature serves up an apocalyptic vision of Hungarian society.
The Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai, whose works have been translated into English and many other European languages, holds the America Award in Literature (2014), the Best Translated Book Award (2013) for Satantango, the Brücke-Berlin Prize (2010), and the Man Booker International Book Prize (2015), among many other honors.
