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Hungarian master of absurdist excess László Krasznahorkai wins Nobel literature prize

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai, whose surreal and anarchic novels combine a bleak world view with mordant humor, won the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for work the judges said upholds the power of art in the midst of “apocalyptic terror.”

The Nobel judges said the 71-year-old author, whose novels sometimes consist of just one long sentence, is “a great epic writer” whose work “is characterized by absurdism and grotesque excess.”

He’s the first Nobel literature winner from Hungary since Imre Kertesz in 2002 and joins a list of laureates that includes Ernest Hemingway, Toni Morrison and Kazuo Ishiguro.

“I am calm and very nervous,” Krasznahorkai told Radio Sweden after getting news of the prize, which comes with an award of more than $1 million. “This is the first day in my life when I got a Nobel Prize. I don’t know what’s coming in the future.”

The work that won the Nobel Prize in literature

The American writer and critic Susan Sontag once described Krasznahorkai as the “contemporary master of the Apocalypse.” His work has echoes of other European writers who explored the absurd tragicomedy of existence, including Franz Kafka and Samuel Beckett.

Zsuzsanna Varga, a Hungarian literature expert at the University of Glasgow, said Krasznahorkai’s novels probe the “utter hopelessness” of human existence, while also being “incredibly funny.”

Krasznahorkai’s near-endless sentences made his work the “Hotel California” of literature — once readers get into it, “you can never leave,” she said.

Varga suggested readers new to Krasznahorkai’s work start with “Satantango,” his 1985 debut, which centered around the few remaining residents of a dying collective farm and set the tone for what was to follow.

Krasznahorkai has since written more than 20 books, including “The Melancholy of Resistance,” a surreal, disturbing tale involving a traveling circus and a stuffed whale, and “Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming,” the sprawling saga of a gambling-addicted aristocrat.

Source: https://apnews.com/article/nobel-prize-literature-25f9886d2c35dabfc6ab7936a8a159c0

At least he got recognized while still alive, its always better late than never...congrats to him

P eter Ob i is next. Can't wait

Congratulations to him 💯✔️

Well done to him......... Keep it up

Big name.

Eyan Szobozlai

The shortest story ever written is by Ernest Hemingway...

3 sentences...

For sale. Baby's shoes. Never worn.

They should please award a posthumous award to Achebe for Chineke sake o.

autoez:
P eter Ob i is next. Can't wait

What for exactly?

Nobel Prize as Opposition Politician?

Noble Prize for Presidential Candidate?

This was what somebody won in Nigeria and became so arrogant to the point of feeling as if he is the most intelligent man in Nigeria.

He even chased away his wife and became the Capone of a secret cult, just because of this little award o!

Look at how quiet this man is

Africans and awards nawaoo!


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Immatex:
What for exactly?

Nobel Prize as Opposition Politician?

Noble Prize for Presidential Candidate?

Nobel price for mour.ning

Sabadon:
At least he got recognized while still alive, its always better late than never...congrats to him

Nobel prize is not for dead people

Wole Soyinka comes to mind

autoez:
P eter Ob i is next. Can't wait

Obi is living rent free in your head
Him don jazz you

How many of you skipped the name pronunciation? 😄

Congrats to him

Wow congrats 🎉... Intelligent man

Smartcitizen:
This was what somebody won in Nigeria and became so arrogant to the point of feeling as if he is the most intelligent man in Nigeria.

He even chased away his wife and became the Capone of a secret cult, just because of this little award o!

Look at how quiet this man is

Africans and awards nawaoo!


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Please and please, Nobel prize for literature is not a little award. It is the highest honour a writer can get on earth. Calling it a little award is an insult to creative writers worldwide. Is like telling footballers that winning Ballon d'or is a little achievement.

Smartcitizen:
This was what somebody won in Nigeria and became so arrogant to the point of feeling as if he is the most intelligent man in Nigeria.

He even chased away his wife and became the Capone of a secret cult, just because of this little award o!

Look at how quiet this man is

Africans and awards nawaoo!


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You mean the same award someone. is. still crying for even in his grave?

Thank God it is not awarded by quota.

By the way, when are you going to remove the smart from. your moniker as adviced?

Wow. Congratulations!

Professor Wole Soyinka did us proud in 1986.

Smartcitizen:
This was what somebody won in Nigeria and became so arrogant to the point of feeling as if he is the most intelligent man in Nigeria.

He even chased away his wife and became the Capone of a secret cult, just because of this little award o!

Look at how quiet this man is

Africans and awards nawaoo!


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I don't understand how is Wole Soyinka arrogant? Na wa o

There's something about writing about the bleakness of existence and nobel laureate

Think Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Satre

The only Nigerian to have ever won Nobel Prize is wole Soyinka

It is well

Smartcitizen:
This was what somebody won in Nigeria and became so arrogant to the point of feeling as if he is the most intelligent man in Nigeria.

He even chased away his wife and became the Capone of a secret cult, just because of this little award o!

Look at how quiet this man is

Africans and awards nawaoo!


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Only Nigerian to have ever won it!

First African to win in that category

What have you achieved ?

Na your type go dey raise shoulder for town if they buy Corolla or be the first to buy iPhone in the street

Or first to travel abroad in your family, you go raise shoulder pass everybody

ppogba:
They should please award a posthumous award to Achebe for Chineke sake o.

Why should they do this? x

No time to read ...... We are stacking digital skills

Smartcitizen:
This was what somebody won in Nigeria and became so arrogant to the point of feeling as if he is the most intelligent man in Nigeria.

He even chased away his wife and became the Capone of a secret cult, just because of this little award o!

Look at how quiet this man is

Africans and awards nawaoo!


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Nobody in my family has won the Nobel prize, and I'm 100% sure nobody in your family has ever won it either.

Congratulations László Krasznahorkai on winning the Nobel Literature Prize.