{"id":20107,"date":"2025-10-10T12:15:48","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T12:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/?p=20107"},"modified":"2025-10-10T12:15:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T12:15:51","slug":"congratulations-to-dear-laslo-krasnahorkai-on-the-nobel-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/2025\/10\/congratulations-to-dear-laslo-krasnahorkai-on-the-nobel-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to dear Laslo Krasnahorkai on the Nobel Prize!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Our beloved friend and participant of the eleventh KROKODIL festival in 2019, Hungarian author Laslo Krasnahorkai, is this year\u2019s Nobel laureate in Literature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Laslo Krasnahorkai is the second Nobel laureate we have had the pleasure of hosting. We remind that the Nobel laureate Herta M\u00fcller participated in our program \u201cFour Countries, One Language\u201d when we presented German-speaking literature at the Belgrade Book Fair in 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Laslo Krasnahorkai was among the stars of the second evening of the KROKODIL Festival in 2019, which featured many illustrious literary names such as Georgi Gospodinov, Miljenko Jergovi\u0107, Svetislav Basara, Lana Basta\u0161i\u0107, and many others. The highly awarded Hungarian author was introduced through a conversation with Marko \u010cudi\u0107 (whose brilliant translations would simply not allow his literary presence in Serbia to be the same). During the discussion, he spoke about his literature and the current social moment, which he described as \u201cwandering in an airless space where we allow ourselves to be humiliated.\u201d That evening, before the Belgrade audience, he once again emphasized \u201chuman stupidity as a key weapon for mass destruction.\u201d He spoke about \u201cthe banality of the time we live in,\u201d but also about the, as he highlighted, \u201cemptiness of the modern world of oblivion.\u201d He bid farewell to the Belgrade audience by reading excerpts from his novel \u201cThe World Is Deep.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Nobel Prize awarded to Laslo Krasnahorkai today was given \u201cfor his compelling and insightful work, which, amid apocalyptic terror, affirms the power of art.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Krasnahorkai was born in 1954 in the small town of \u0110ula in southeastern Hungary, near the Romanian border. The rural environment served as the backdrop for the characters of his first novel, Satantango<\/em>, which became a literary sensation upon its publication in 1985. In 2015, Krasnahorkai received the International Booker Prize for Literature. He is the 122nd recipient of this award, which has been awarded since 1901, and along with Imre Kert\u00e9sz (2002), Krasnahorkai is the second Hungarian writer to be honored with this prize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photo: Laslo Krasnahorkai at the KROKODIL Festival 2019. Creds: Alex Dmitrovi\u0107.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our beloved friend and participant of the eleventh KROKODIL festival in 2019, Hungarian author Laslo Krasnahorkai, is this year\u2019s Nobel laureate in Literature. Laslo Krasnahorkai is the second Nobel laureate we have had the pleasure of hosting. We remind that the Nobel laureate Herta M\u00fcller…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20111,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[3,206,4],"tags":[226,210,329,330,331],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20116,"href":"https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20107\/revisions\/20116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}