Hungarian Writer Krasznahorkai Wins 2015 Man Booker International Prize
- 21 May 2015 9:08 AM
“Innovative Hungarian writer” László Krasznahorkai was announced as the winner of the sixth Man Booker International Prize at an award ceremony at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London late on Tuesday. Krasznahorkai was chosen from a list of ten contenders from around the world, the website of the prominent literary prize said.
The Man Booker International Prize, worth 60,000 pounds, is awarded for an achievement in fiction on the world stage, it added.
Announcing the winner, Marina Warner commented that “Krasznahorkai is a visionary writer of extraordinary intensity and vocal range who captures the texture of present day existence in scenes that are terrifying, strange, appallingly comic and often shatteringly beautiful.
The Melancholy of Resistance, Sátántangó and Seiobo There Below are magnificent works of deep imagination and complex passions, in which the human comedy verges painfully onto transcendence.”
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