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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

Béla Tarr, Hungarian director of Sátántangó and Werckmeister Harmonies, dies aged 70

The internationally acclaimed film-maker was renowned for beautifully shot cinematic epics

The Guardian - UK

Hungarian director and titan of contemplative cinema Béla Tarr dies aged 70

Best known for his films 'Sátántangó' and 'The Turin Horse', Béla Tarr was one of Europe's greatest filmmakers and shaped a cinematic legacy of despairing beauty.

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‘It has become difficult to live’: Hungarian writers bemoan country’s hostile environment

Nobel prize for László Krasznahorkai provides a rare glimpse of unity in a nation divided on party lines

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Nobel laureates arrive for a week of events and awards in Stockholm and Oslo

Nobel week is underway in Stockholm and Oslo, with laureates holding news conferences and lectures before receiving their prestigious prizes

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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

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

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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.

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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

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

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

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

Nobel Prize 2025: Who Is László Krasznahorkai? The Reclusive Genius Behind Literature's Top Honour

The life of the Hungarian author and some of his greatest works are revealed after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2025.

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A great pessimist and unapologetic traditionalist: László Krasznahorkai wins the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature

Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai has won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature for “his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art”.

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László Krasznahorkai wins Nobel prize for literature – the Hungarian novelist’s grand tales of alienation speak to our times

Awarding the Nobel prize for literature to László Krasznahorkai today, the Swedish Academy commended the author’s “compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art”. But in itself their decision is also a commitment to the value of serious and intellectual writing in…

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Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai wins 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature

Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai has been chosen as the winner “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.” Susan Sontag previously described the author as “the contemporary Hungarian master of apocalypse.”

The Independent UK

What to read by the Nobel Prize in literature winner László Krasznahorkai

Author joins illustrious list of laureates including Ernest Hemingway and Toni Morrison

The Guardian - UK

László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel prize in literature 2025

Hungarian novelist celebrated for dystopian, melancholic novels that ‘reaffirm the power of art’

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László Krasznahorkai: Hungarian author wins Nobel Prize in Literature for 2025

Several of the author’s books, including ‘Satantango’ and ‘The Melancholy of Resistance’, have been adapted into feature films

The Guardian - UK

Nobel prize in literature 2025 as it happened: László Krasznahorkai wins ‘for his compelling and visionary oeuvre’

Nobel academy cites Hungarian novelist for work that ‘in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art’

The Guardian - UK

Can Xue and László Krasznahorkai are joint favourites to win 2025 Nobel prize in literature

The Chinese and Hungarian writers are tied with odds of 10/1 – while Haruki Murakami, Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie are also in the running

The Guardian - UK

Herscht 07769 by László Krasznahorkai review – sinister cosmic visions

A physics student calls on Angela Merkel to help him save the world in this one-sentence onslaught from a ‘master of the apocalypse’

The Guardian - UK

Werckmeister Harmonies review – Béla Tarr’s brooding masterpiece of a town sleepwalking into tyranny

Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky’s 2000 film moves slowly around a small town where a very strange circus has arrived. Its eerie power has only grown in a time of rising fascism

The Guardian - UK

Nobel prize in literature 2023 won by Norwegian author Jon Fosse – as it happened

Fosse honoured by Nobel committee ‘for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable’

The Guardian - UK

A Mountain to the North… by László Krasznahorkai review – a tribute act to modernism

This short novel is probably the most accessible entry point for a newcomer – but that’s not saying much

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