Nobel Prize in literature
♦ The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in literature to Hungarian novelist and screenwriter Laszlo Krasznahorkai. ♦ The second Hungarian to win the prestigious literary award, Krasznahorkai was recognised “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art”. ♦ In winning the Nobel Prize, now worth $1.2m, he joins an illustrious list of laureates that includes Toni Morrison, Ernest Hemingway and Kazuo Ishiguro. ♦ In 2024, the award went to South Korean author Han Kang, who was praised “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”. ♦ Han was the first South Korean writer and 18th woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature.