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A Hungarian autumn: After László Krasznahorkai's Nobel win, David Szalay bags the Booker
November 16, 2025 10:12 am
Two writers, worlds apart yet bound by Hungary, claim literature’s highest prizes — László Krasznahorkai for his visionary despair, David Szalay for his cool dissection of modern life.
Kafka and László Krasznahorkai’s legacy is a reminder — to write is to defy the silence of a fractured world
November 01, 2025 7:15 am
Krasznahorkai’s response to winning the Nobel was emblematic of this lineage: “I never wanted to achieve anything with my books. I just wanted to tell the stories I needed to tell.”
Why Haruki Murakami is the perennial almost Nobel Laureate
October 27, 2025 3:40 pm
Murakami romanticises solitude, turns the mundane mystical, and remains the Nobel’s most faithful almost-winner.
A mistakenly published obituary, a changed will, and the birth of Nobel Prize
October 13, 2025 9:52 pm
A year before his death in December 1896, at 63, Alfred Nobel changed his will. He stipulated that most of his fortune be divided into five parts to fund the Nobel Prize.
‘More than a catastrophe’: How László Krasznahorkai reacted to winning the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature
November 13, 2025 8:07 pm
The Hungarian novelist speaks from Frankfurt about his surprise at winning the Nobel Prize in Literature
2025 Nobel Prize in Literature | 'Hungarian master of apocalypse': What makes László Krasznahorkai's writing stand out
October 10, 2025 10:54 am
László Krasznahorkai, whose fiction walks the knife-edge between despair and grace, has become the second Hungarian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Who is László Krasznahorkai — master of the apocalypse, winner of the Nobel
November 13, 2025 8:08 pm
László Krasznahorkai, the Hungarian author, known for his long, philosophical sentences and bleakly comic vision, won the Nobel Prize in Literature 2025 for a body of work that “reaffirms the power of art.”
Nobel Prize in Literature 2025 Highlights: László Krasznahorkai, Hungary’s master of the apocalypse, is winner
October 17, 2025 12:30 pm
Nobel Prize in Literature 2025 Winner Highlights: Hungarian novelist and screenwriter László Krasznahorkai has won this year's Nobel Prize in Literature.
Knowledge Nugget of the day: Nihon Hidankyo
October 18, 2024 12:04 pm
Recently, the Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Nihon Hidankyo. What is Nihon Hidankyo? Why has it been awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize? What are Hibakusha’s testimonies? Here's everything that you need to know.
The Third Edit: Han Kang, recipient of 2024 Literature Nobel, a writer who gets under the skin
October 11, 2024 12:25 am
In the decision of the Swedish Academy, long accused of a male, Eurocentric bias, to award the Prize to a writer who peels back the thin skin of civilisation to lay bare the injustice underneath, there is an odd, jagged-edged poetry — one that might well have flowed out of Han’s own pen
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As Annie Ernaux wins Nobel Prize 2022 in Literature, a look at the past winners of the prestigious global award
October 06, 2022 4:38 pm
Take a look at the past winners of Nobel Prize for Literature
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