The 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.”
The Swedish Academy announced on Thursday that the writer will receive an 11 million-krona ($1.2 million) award. The literature prize is part of the prestigious annual awards honouring achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine, and peace.
These prizes were originally created in the will of the late Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite, with an economics prize being added later in 1968 by the Swedish central bank.
Last year, the prize went to South Korean author Han Kang for her “intense poetic prose” that explored trauma and history.
