Nobel Prize in Literature Winner 2025: László Krasznahorkai win award for compelling and visionary oeuvre

Nobel Prize for Literature 2025 was awarded to for Hungarian author László Krasznahorkaiby the Swedish Academy on 9 October 2025. Check the complete details about the Nobel Prize for Literature 2025 winner and some key facts and important details here in this Veranda RACE article.

Nobel Prize Literature Winner 2025 Announced

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2025 has been awarded to László Krasznahorkai, “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.” by the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, Sweden.

László Krasznahorkai is a Hungarian author.

This year’s Literature Nobel winner in 2025 is László Krasznahorkai from Hungary.He will now receive the Nobel Prize money of 11 million Swedish kronor (nearly $1.2 million) in 2025.

László Krasznahorkai – Nobel Literature Prize Winner 2025

László Krasznahorkai was born 5 January 1954 in Gyula, Hungary. He is a Nobel Prize winning Hungarian novelist and screenwriter known for difficult and demanding novels. He became a literary sensation in Hungary with his first novel ‘Sátántangó’ published in 1985.

Honours and Awards:

Laszlo Krasznahorkai has been honoured with numerous literary prizes, among them Nobel Prize in Literature in 2025, the highest award of the Hungarian state: the Kossuth Prize and the Man Booker International Prize for his English-translated oeuvre.

2025: Nobel Prize in Literature

2024: Prix Formentor

2021: Austrian State Prize for European Literature

2019: National Book Award for Translated Literature (USA) for Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming

2017: Aegon Art Award for Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming (Hungary)

2015: Man Booker International Prize

2014: Vilenica Prize (Vilenica International Literary Festival, Slovenia)

2014: Best Translated Book Award, winner for Seiobo There Below, translated from the Hungarian by Ottilie Mulzet. First author to win two BTBA awards.

2013: Best Translated Book Award, winner for Satantango, translated from the Hungarian by George Szirtes.

2012: Prima Primissima Prize

2010: Brücke-Berlin Prize

2010: Spycher-Prize for his complete work but in particular for From the North a Mountain

Books Released in English / Bibliography

Here is a list of the books written by László Krasznahorkai in English:

The Melancholy of Resistance / translated from the Hungarian by George Szirtes

War & War / translated from the Hungarian by Georges Szirtes

Animalinside / pictures: Max Neumann ; translated from the Hungarian by Ottilie Mulzet

Satantango / translated from the Hungarian by George Szirtes

The Bill : For Palma Vecchio, at Venice / translated from the Hungarian by George Szirtes

Seiobo There Below / translated from the Hungarian by Ottilie Mulzet

Destruction and Sorrow Beneath the Heavens : Reportage / translated from the Hungarian by Ottilie Mulzet

The Last Wolf and Herman / translated from the Hungarian by George Szirtes and John Batki

The World Goes On / translated from the Hungarian by John Bátki, Ottilie Mulzet and George Szirtes

Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming / translated from the Hungarian by Ottilie Mulzet

Spadework for a Palace : Entering the Madness of Others / translated from the Hungarian by John Batki

A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East / translated from the Hungarian by Ottilie Mulzet

Herscht 07769 : A Novel / translated from the Hungarian by Ottilie Mulzet

What is the Nobel Prize for Literature?

The Nobel Prize in Literature is a Swedish literature prize that is awarded annually since 1901 by the Swedish Academy in Stockholm to an author from any country who has ‘in the field of literature, produced the most outstanding work in an idealistic direction’.

The Swedish Academy usually announced the winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature in the month of October every year.

The Nobel Prize for Literature is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895.

The Nobel Prize for Literature is also the final award presented at the Nobel Prize ceremony.

The winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature receives a gold medal, a diploma bearing a citation and a sum of 11 million Swedish korona. The Nobel Literature Prize is considered as the second richest literary prize in the world.

Key Facts about the Nobel Literature Prize

The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded 117 times since 1901 until 2024.

Between 1901 and 2024, the Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to 121 individual Nobel Prize Laureates.

The Nobel Prize in Literature was first awarded in 1901.

It has not been awarded on seven occasions: in 1914, 1918, 1935, 1940, 1941, 1942 and 1943.

Only 18 women have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

103 men have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature until 2024.

French poet and essayist Sully Prudhomme was awarded the first Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901.

Swedish writer Selma Lagerlof was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1909.

Rabindranath Tagore is the first Indian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 for his collection of poems, Gitanjali. He was also the first Non-European to be conferred the Nobel Literature Prize.

South Korean writer Han Kang won the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2024 for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.

4 Nobel Literature Prizes have been shared between multiple laureates in 1904, 1917, 1966 and 1974.

Rudyard Kipling is the youngest Nobel Literature laureate and was awarded in 1907 at the age of 41 ‘in consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration which characterise the creations of this world-famous author’.

The oldest Nobel Literature laureate is Doris Lessing, award in 2007 at the age of 87, ‘for ‘that epicist of the female experience’.

Nobel Prize in Literature Winner of 2025

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”.