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October 9, 2025

2025 Nobel Prize in Literature Awarded to Hungarian Novelist László Krasznahorkai
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The 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Hungarian
novelist László Krasznahorkai. The Nobel Committee called him "a great
epic writer in the Central European tradition that extends through Kafka
to Thomas Bernhard, and is characterized by absurdism and grotesque
excess."


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