The Latest Breaking News from László Krasznahorkai

Canadian poet Anne Carson wins Nobel prize in literature 2026 – as it happened

Swedish Academy says Carson selected for her ‘bold and inventive oeuvre’

The Guardian - UK · 17h ago

Melancholy made in Hungary is fuelling bestsellers across the globe – and widely misunderstood

A ‘capacity for despair’ forged by political oppression has long been consider a Magyar national trait. But after Orbán, writers in the country remind us that melancholy must not always be bleak

The Guardian - UK · Aug 20

With Sátántangó and Werckmeister Harmonies, Béla Tarr became the vividly disquieting master of spiritual desolation

The Hungarian director’s films moved slowly like vast gothic aircraft carrier-sized ships across dark seas, giving audiences a feeling of drunkenness and hangover at the same time

The Guardian - UK · Jan 6

Agatha Christie detectives join Mr Men world in new children’s books

Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple are back in a series for young readers

The Independent UK · Oct 22, 2025

Harper Lee’s previously unseen short stories show ‘a brilliant writer in the making’

Eight short stories were discovered in the author’s flat after her death

The Independent UK · Oct 20, 2025

Nobel Literature laureate László Krasznahorkai leaves Portuguese festival due to poor health

The newly crowned Noble Literature Prize winner, Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai, has been forced to withdraw from the Fólio 2025 literary festival due to unspecified health reasons.

Euronews · Oct 18, 2025

Keira Knightley says she was ‘not aware’ of JK Rowling boycott before joining Harry Potter cast

JK Rowling has repeatedly come under fire for comments about gender ideology

The Independent UK · Oct 13, 2025

Colm Tóibín: Why I set up a press to publish Nobel winner László Krasznahorkai

The Irish novelist discovered the Hungarian writer two decades ago, and was excited by the verbal pyrotechnics of a rule-breaking storyteller

The Guardian - UK · Oct 10, 2025

How László Krasznahorkai’s Nobel-prize winning genius slowly spread around Europe

When László Krasznahorkai, winner of the 2025 Nobel prize in literature, first burst onto Hungary’s literary scene in 1985, it was clear he was a unique talent. His first novel, Satantango, soon became a cult classic.

The Conversation · Oct 10, 2025

A list of this year's Nobel Prize winners so far

The award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has brought this week’s Nobel announcements to a conclusion

The Independent UK · Oct 10, 2025