Hungarian writer Laszlo Krasznahorkai won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature, the award-giving body said on Thursday.
The prize is awarded by the Swedish Academy and is worth 11 million crowns ($1.6 million Cdn).
The honour for Krasznahorkai, 71, comes a decade after he won the prestigious Man Booker International Prize. He is perhaps best known for the 1989 novel, The Melancholy of Resistance.
Mats Malm, permanent secretary at the Swedish Academy, praised Krasznahorkai’s “visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.”
Past notable laureates in literature have included George Bernard Shaw, Ernest Hemingway, Jean-Paul Sartre, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and, in 2013, Canadian Alice Munro. Last year, the honour was awarded to South Korean Han Kang.
The Nobel Prizes are presented to the laureates in a ceremony on Dec. 10, the anniversary of Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel’s death.
The Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Friday, with the Nobel in economics recipient to be revealed on Monday.
The committee that decides on the laureates for the peace prize said there were 338 candidates put forth for nomination, an increase from last year’s total of 286 nominees. The list of nominees is only revealed 50 years after the prize is awarded.
The nomination period for the peace prize closed on Jan. 31.
Last year, the peace prize was awarded to the Japanese grass roots group Nihon Hidankyo, dedicated to the cause of a nuclear-free world. The group formed in 1956, a decade after atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing hundreds of thousands of people and exposing civilians to radiation.
