Nobel Prize

Interview, December 2025 Interview with the 2025 Nobel Prize laureate in literature László Krasznahorkai on 6 December 2025 during Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. László Krasznahorkai answers the following questions (the links below lead to a clip on YouTube): Could you describe the environment in Hungary when you were growing up? Did you always strive…

László Krasznahorkai receiving his Nobel Prize from H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at Konserthuset Stockholm on 10 December 2025. László Krasznahorkai lecturing at the Swedish Academy, 7 December 2025. László Krasznahorkai at the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm, 6 December 2025. László Krasznahorkai donated a Netsuke depicting a wise elderly man to the…

Interview, December 2025 Interview with the 2025 Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry Susumu Kitagawa on 6 December 2025 during Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Susumu Kitagawa answers the following questions (the links below lead to a clip on YouTube): How did you become interested in science? What sort of child were you? Was there a…

Announcement of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2025 by Mats Malm, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, on 9 October 2025. Interview about the awarded work “As a debut novel, it is magnificent” Following the announcement, Steve Sem-Sandberg, member of the Nobel Committee for Literature, was interviewed by Carin Klaesson about the 2025 Nobel Prize…

Swedish Författaren László Krasznahorkai föddes 1954 i den lilla staden Gyula i sydöstra Ungern, nära gränsen till Rumänien. En liknande, lantlig trakt i periferin blir skådeplats för Krasznahorkais första roman Sátántangó (Satantango, 2015) som utgavs 1985, en bok som blir en litterär sensation i Ungern och författarens stora genombrott. Romanen skildrar med stark suggestionskraft en grupp nergångna människor på…

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Swedish Ständige sekreteraren Pressmeddelande9 oktober 2025 Nobelpriset i litteratur år 2025 László Krasznahorkai Nobelpriset i litteratur år 2025 tilldelas den ungerska författaren László Krasznahorkai, ”för hans visionära och kraftfulla författarskap som mitt i undergångens fasa upprätthåller tron på konstens möjligheter”.

English The author László Krasznahorkai was born in 1954 in the small town of Gyula in southeast Hungary, near the Romanian border. A similar remote rural area is the scene of Krasznahorkai’s first novel Sátántangó, published in 1985 (Satantango, 2012), which was a literary sensation in Hungary and the author’s breakthrough work. The novel portrays, in powerfully suggestive terms,…

English The Permanent Secretary Press Release9 October 2025 The Nobel Prize in Literature 2025 László Krasznahorkai The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2025 is awarded to the Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai, “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art”.

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