The Swedish Academy has awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature to Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai for his "compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art."
The writer was born in 1954 in the small town of Gyula, in southeastern Hungary, on the border with Romania. His works are characterized by long, flowing sentences without periods, a hallmark of the author's style.
