László Krasznahorkai

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László Krasznahorkai (2016)

László Krasznahorkai [ ˈlaːsloː ˈkrɒsnɒhorkɒi ] (born January 5, 1954 in Gyula , Hungary ) is a Hungarian writer .

Life

He first studied law in Szeged , then from 1976 to 1983 Hungarian and literature at the University of Budapest . After 1987 he lived in Berlin for a long time and in the early 1990s in China , Mongolia and Kyoto . During this time he also lived for a while in Allen Ginsberg's apartment in New York , who also advised him on writing.

His novels have been translated into many languages ​​and have been awarded international prizes, including the Tibor Déry Prize , the SWR Best List Prize (1993), the Kossuth Prize (2004), the Spycher: Leuk Literature Prize (2010) and the Brücke Berlin Prize for Literature and Translators (2010).

Krasznahorkai lives as a freelance writer in Pilisszentlászló near Budapest and in Berlin. In the summer semester of 2008 he was a visiting professor at the Free University of Berlin . In 2014 he was awarded the America Award in Literature .

Krasznahorkai received the Man Booker International Prize in 2015 . The chairwoman of the jury, Marina Warner, called him "a visionary writer of extraordinary intensity, whose linguistic expression captures the nature of today's existence in scenes that are worrying, strange, terrifyingly funny and often overwhelmingly beautiful." His translators Ottilie Mulzet and George Szirtes shared at the same time a prize for her translations of Krasznahorkai's works.

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The work is divided into two periods, the first in the 1980s is marked by apocalyptic, dark stories about small towns and small people who are being destroyed. Later his work changes and it becomes much brighter.

His novels are often meditative. His novel In the north a mountain, in the south a lake, in the west paths, in the east a river is set in a Japanese monastery, The Prisoner of Urga in the desert of Mongolia and in Beijing, in war and war , a Hungarian private scholar undertakes a journey to New York City to die there.

His first book Satanstango was filmed as well as others by Béla Tarr , with Krasznahorkai himself writing the scripts.

Works

In German translation

  • Satanstango ( Sátántangó , 1985, German 1989)
  • Relations of grace ( Kegyelmi viszonyok , 1986, German 1988)
  • Melancholy of Resistance ( Az ellenállás melankóliája , 1989, German 1992)
  • The Prisoner of Urga ( Az urgai fogoly , 1993, German 1993)
  • War and War ( Háború és háború , 1999, German 1999) ISBN 3-250-60021-0
  • In the north a mountain, in the south a lake, in the west paths, in the east a river ( Északról hegy, Délről tó, Nyugatról utak, Keletről folyó , 2003, German 2005, ISBN 3-250-60080-6 )
  • Seiobo on earth ( Seiobo járt odalent , 2008, German 2010, ISBN 978-3-10-042204-0 )
  • El último lobo ( Az utolsó farkas , 2009, German 2010 in Neue Rundschau 2010/2 Fischer)
  • The world ahead ( Megy a világ , 2013, German 2015, ISBN 978-3-10-042221-7 )
  • Baron Wenckheim's return ( Báró Wenckheim hazatér , 2016, German autumn 2018)

Filmography

Others

  • War and War - The Complete Story (1999) CD-ROM, Budapest
  • Music & Literature: Krasznahorkai / Tarr / Neumann (2013), special edition of the journal in book length with texts by Krasznahorkai and essays about his work, 224 pages, ISBN 978-0988879904 .

literature

Web links

Commons : László Krasznahorkai  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Everything you need to know about László Krasznahorkai, winner of the Man Booker International prize in: The Guardian, May 20, 2015, accessed on May 20, 2015
  2. ↑ a b Man Booker International prize 2015 won by 'visionary' László Krasznahorkai in: The Guardian , May 19, 2015, accessed on May 20, 2015
  3. ^ Music & Literature , accessed November 9, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Krasznahorkai, László
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian writer
DATE OF BIRTH 5th January 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Gyula