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László Krasznahorkai

Born

in Gyula, Hungary

January 05, 1954

Website

http://www.krasznahorkai.hu/

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Genre

Postmodernism, Contemporary, Fiction

Influences

Franz Kafka, Thomas Bernhard, Samuel Beckett ...more

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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 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2025.

He is probably best known through the oeuvre of the director Béla Tarr, who has collaborated with him on several movies.

Apart from the Nobel Prize, Krasznahorkai has also been honored with numerous literary prizes, among them the highest award of the Hungarian state, the Kossuth Prize, and the 2015 Man Booker International Prize for his English-translated oeuvre.

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Average rating: 4.06 · 35,687 ratings · 5,787 reviews · 41 distinct works • Similar authors

	Satantango 4.11 avg rating — 12,404 ratings — published 1985 — 90 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Melancholy of Resistance by László Krasznahorkai, George Szirtes (Translator) 4.11 avg rating — 6,523 ratings — published 1989 — 64 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	War & War by László Krasznahorkai, George Szirtes (Translator) 4.10 avg rating — 2,938 ratings — published 1999 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Seiobo There Below by László Krasznahorkai, Ottilie Mulzet (Translator) 4.27 avg rating — 1,819 ratings — published 2008 — 36 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last Wolf / Herman by László Krasznahorkai, John Batki (Translator), George Szirtes (Translator) 3.96 avg rating — 1,735 ratings — published 2016 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East by László Krasznahorkai, Ottilie Mulzet (Translator) 3.74 avg rating — 1,806 ratings — published 2003 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming by László Krasznahorkai, Ottilie Mulzet (Translator) 4.16 avg rating — 1,462 ratings — published 2016 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Herscht 07769 4.15 avg rating — 1,266 ratings — published 2021 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The World Goes On by László Krasznahorkai, George Szirtes (Translator), Ottilie Mulzet (Translator) 3.81 avg rating — 1,109 ratings — published 2013 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chasing Homer by László Krasznahorkai, Max Neumann (Artist), Szilveszter Miklós (Performer) 3.69 avg rating — 1,064 ratings — published 2019 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by László Krasznahorkai (?)

“It passes, but it does not pass away.”
― Laszlo Krasznahorkai

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“...what one ought to capture in beauty is that which is treacherous and irresistible...”
― László Krasznahorkai, War & War

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“Get it into your thick head that jokes are just like life. Things that begin badly, end badly. Everything's fine in the middle, it's the end you need to worry about.”
― László Krasznahorkai, Satantango

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