Following the 2023 Nobel Prizes for Ferenc Krausz (Physics) and Katalin Karikó (Medicine), Hungary celebrates another achievement: writer László Krasznahorkai has been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Born in Gyula in 1954, Krasznahorkai is internationally renowned for his dense, meandering prose and novels such as Sátántangó and The Melancholy of Resistance. This marks Hungary’s 16th Nobel Prize and its second in Literature after Imre Kertész in 2002.
Ferenc Krausz, Nobel Laureate in Physics 2023, extends his warmest wishes to his fellow Hungarian on this remarkable achievement, noting Hungary’s extraordinary impact on the global stage.
The official Nobel ceremony will take place on December 10, 2025, in Stockholm.
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