Nobel Prize for literature 2025

[lunababymoonchild]

The Nobel Prize for literature, 2025 has been awarded to László Krasznahorkai, one of my favourite authors.

[Hux]

56 minutes ago, lunababymoonchild said:

The Nobel Prize for literature, 2025 has been awarded to László Krasznahorkai, one of my favourite authors.

 

Not always a fan of his work but he deserved it. Saw this coming a mile off.

[Nataweeee]

the melancholy of resistance has been on my to-read list forever now, i should really pick it up next time i see it in stock somewhere.

[KEV67]

On 10/9/2025 at 3:46 PM, lunababymoonchild said:

The Nobel Prize for literature, 2025 has been awarded to László Krasznahorkai, one of my favourite authors.

Never heard of him. The Nobel Prize for literature seems a bit dodgy to me, almost as dodgy as the peace prize. Bob Dylan won it once, and sure he's written a lot of good songs, but did he deserve the preeminent prize for literature? Winston Churchill won the literature prize once. I am a big fan of Churchill and I suspect his history books were pretty good. I expect there were better history books published in his time, and really he is known for his other achievements. 

[Madeleine]

I've not heard of the winner either.  I remember there was a lot of controversy when Bob Dylan won the Lit Prize, apparently it was for his poetry.

[lunababymoonchild]

2 hours ago, KEV67 said:

Never heard of him. The Nobel Prize for literature seems a bit dodgy to me, almost as dodgy as the peace prize. Bob Dylan won it once, and sure he's written a lot of good songs, but did he deserve the preeminent prize for literature? Winston Churchill won the literature prize once. I am a big fan of Churchill and I suspect his history books were pretty good. I expect there were better history books published in his time, and really he is known for his other achievements. 

Prize giving in general is dodgy, in my opinion which was formed at school when I pointed out that it was always the same kids who won a prize at the end of the year because they were more intelligent than the rest of us. The teacher told me I was wrong and it was a reward for hard work but couldn’t give me an answer when I asked her to prove that the female prize winner had worked harder than me. 
 

Hux is right though, you could see that one coming. 
 

More on him here : László Krasznahorkai

 

[Hux]

As someone who tries to keep up with Nobel Prize winners in literature, and occasionally reads them (some are truly sublime, others are shockingly prosaic), when Abdulrazak Gurnah won, I did need to Google him.

Edited October 14 by Hux

[lunababymoonchild]

I don’t keep up with the prize and inevitably haven’t heard of the recipient. Not only have I heard of Krasznahorkai, I’ve read him and so was moved to post.