Krasznahorkai László Krasznahorkai (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈlaːsloː ˈkrɒsnɒhorkɒi]; born 5 January ) is a Hungarian novelist and screenwriter known for difficult and demanding novels, often labeled postmodern, with dystopian and melancholic themes. [3] Several of his works, including his novels Satantango (Sátántangó, ) and The. 1 nrk bok 2 Krasznahorkai arrived in the Hungarian literary scene with a strange masterpiece published in , having been circulated as a manuscript for years. He had been working odd, menial jobs around the country, with no fixed address, in a regime that was determined to pin everyone down with a job. The novel Sátántangó was born out of these. 3 nrk anmeldelser 4 László Krasznahorkai is a Hungarian novelist and screenwriter who is known for critically difficult and demanding novels, often labelled as postmodern, with dystopian and bleak melancholic themes. He is probably best known through the oeuvre of the director Béla Tarr, who has collaborated with him on several movies. 5 Even Krasznahorkai’s admirers acknowledge Satantango is a hard and gloomy slog – the Tough Mudder of modern novels. The seven-and-a-half hour black and white film version, directed by Béla. 6 László 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. 7 bokanmeldelser 8 László Krasznahorkai er en ungarsk romanforfatter og manusforfatter kjent for vanskelige og krevende romaner, ofte stemplet som postmoderne, med dystopiske og melankolske temaer. 9 Vinner av den internasjonale Man Bookerprisen Satantango er historien om livet i en fraflytningstruet bygd i et dystopisk kommunistisk Ungarn. 10 László Krasznahorkai was born in Gyula, Hungary, in He worked for some years as an editor until , when he became a freelance writer. He now lives in reclusiveness in the hills of Szentlászló. He has written five novels and won numerous prizes, including the National Book Award for Translated Literature, the Man Booker. 11 Spring Writer in Residence. The Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai, whose works have been translated into English and many other European languages, holds the America Award in Literature (), the Best Translated Book Award () for Satantango, the Brücke-Berlin Prize (), and the Man Booker International Book Prize ( 12