Hungarian novelist and screenwriter László Krasznahorkai Share on Facebook Share on X Share to Flipboard Send an Email Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Print the Article Post a Comment Hungarian novelist and screenwriter László Krasznahorkai has won the Nobel Prize in Literature 2025. Several of his novels, including Sátántangó (1985) and The Melancholy of Resistance (1989), were adapted into feature films by Hungarian auteur Béla Tarr. The Swedish Academy unveiled the honoree on Thursday. Sátántangó is the Tarr-directed 450-minute adaptation, which was featured in the Berlin Film Festival's Forum section in 1994 where it won the Caligari award. The honor is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, in 1895. The others are prizes in chemistry, physics and medicine, as well as the Nobel Peace Prize. Related Stories Movies Liv Ullmann to Receive European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award Business Fremantle Names Boss of New AI Label Imaginae Studios Last year, South Korean writer Han Kang, whose international breakthrough novel The Vegetarian was made into a film, won the award. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2023 went to Norwegian author Jon Fosse, while the 2022 honor was awarded to French author Annie Ernaux, whose autobiography Happening was adapted for the screen by director Audrey Diwan as the abortion drama under the same name that earned the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival 2021. Since 1901, the Nobel Prize for Literature prize has been awarded to an author from any country who has, according to Nobel's will, written "the most outstanding work in an ideal direction." It is presented by the Swedish Academy. Past winners include U.S. writers Toni Morrison and Saul Bellow, Britain's Harold Pinter and William Golding, Ireland's Samuel Beckett, Canada's Alice Munro, South Africa's Nadine Gordimer and J.M. Coetzee, Colombia's Gabriel Garcia Marquez, France's Jean-Paul Sartre, Germany's Gunter Grass, Turkey's Orhan Pamuk and China's Mo Yan. Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan won the honor in 2016. THR Newsletters Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day Subscribe Sign Up sponsored Audible's Best Promo of the Year Returns: How to Get Three Months of Star-Narrated Audiobooks for $3 shopping This Prime Day Deal on Apple AirTags Is Even Better Than Black Friday Prices wellness Final Hours to Save: Kourtney Kardashian Barker's Lemme Gummies Get a Rare Prime Day Price Drop shopping Prime Day vs. Black Friday: 5 Categories Amazon's Shopping Event Does Better Tyson Beckford Olivia Colman Stars in Burberry Short Film for 'Shakespeare in Love' Director John Madden Tracee Ellis Ross Tracee Ellis Ross Just Made Spanx x La Ligne the Sweater Collab of the Season sponsored Audible's Best Promo of the Year Returns: How to Get Three Months of Star-Narrated Audiobooks for $3 shopping This Prime Day Deal on Apple AirTags Is Even Better Than Black Friday Prices wellness Final Hours to Save: Kourtney Kardashian Barker's Lemme Gummies Get a Rare Prime Day Price Drop shopping Prime Day vs. Black Friday: 5 Categories Amazon's Shopping Event Does Better Tyson Beckford Olivia Colman Stars in Burberry Short Film for 'Shakespeare in Love' Director John Madden Tracee Ellis Ross Tracee Ellis Ross Just Made Spanx x La Ligne the Sweater Collab of the Season