László Krasznahorkai - winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature

Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai has been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature. The announcement was made by Mats Malm, Secretary of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, in Stockholm. The jury recognized his "powerful and original works that demonstrate the power of art even in the most terrible situations."

From 1901 to 2023, the Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded 117 times. Among the laureates were 18 women. The most recent of these was Han Kang, who received the award in 2024.

In previous years, the prize was awarded to:

• Han Kang – "for her deeply poetic prose that speaks of historical trauma and shows how fragile human life is."
• Jon Fosse (2023) – "for his innovative plays and prose that give voice to the unsayable."
• Annie Ernaux (2022) – "for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory."

The oldest Nobel laureate in Literature was Doris Lessing, who received it at the age of 87. And four times in the history of the prize, it has been shared between two people.