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László Krasznahorkai
Hungarian novelist and screenwriter
b. 1954age 72Living
A Hungarian novelist known for long, difficult, unbroken sentences and bleak, apocalyptic material, best known for Satántangó and The Melancholy of Resistance, both adapted into films by Béla Tarr. He won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature, cited for an oeuvre that, the committee wrote, reaffirms the power of art in the midst of apocalyptic terror.