Hungarian writer Laszlo Krasznahorkai is the 2025 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Swedish Academy honored Laszlo Krasznahorkai for his "visionary and apocalyptic" prose. Photo by Janos Marjai/EPA
Oct. 9 (UPI) -- The Swedish Academy awarded this year's Nobel Prize in literature to Hungarian writer Laszlo Krasznahorkai, known for bringing "apocalyptic terror" to his work.
Krasznahorkai, 71, is known for his long sentences and dark subjects. The Swedish Academy said they chose him for the prize,"for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art."
Several of his books have been adapted into movies by Hungarian director Bela Tarr, including Satantango and The Melancholy of Resistance, which are also his two most popular novels.
Krasznahorkai was born in Gyula, Hungary, in 1954, just two years before the Hungarian Revolution, which was violently oppressed by the Soviet regime. He has said that he grew up "in a predicament and a country where a person accursed with a heightened aesthetic and moral sensitivity like me simply cannot survive."
