Hungarian 'Master of the apocalypse' Krasznahorkai wins 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature

Known for his winding sentences and dystopian themes, Krasznahorkai has frequently been compared to Kafka and Gogol. His debut novel, Satantango, published in 1985, followed the collapse of a rural community in Hungary, while more recent works, including the novels The Prisoner of Urga and Destruction and Sorrow Beneath the Heavens, were inspired by the author’s travels to Mongolia and China.