Born 1954 · Hungary
Libri 2022 · Winner
Herscht 07769
László Krasznahorkai · 67 when first published
Novel · 416 pages · Politics, Satire
AI-generated summary:In a small town in Thuringia, a gentle giant who cleans graffiti writes to Angela Merkel about the end of the world, while neo-Nazis gather around the town's cult of Bach.
National Book Award 2019 · Winner
Báró Wenckheim hazatér
László Krasznahorkai · 62 when first published
Novel · 576 pages · Satire
Translated by Ottilie Mulzet
AI-generated summary:A gravely ill baron with a gambling habit comes home from Buenos Aires to the run-down Hungarian provincial town where he was born, and where the locals await him like a messiah.
Also: Aegon 2017 winner · Libri 2017 shortlist
International Booker 2018 · Shortlist
Megy a világ
László Krasznahorkai · 59 when first published
Short stories · 288 pages
Translated by George Szirtes, Ottilie Mulzet, John Batki
AI-generated summary:Stories and speeches in three parts, in which a narrator speaks, then tells, then takes his leave, encountering Gagarin, a flightless Okinawan rail, a homeless man in the Berlin metro and Nietzsche in Turin.
Also: Aegon 2014 shortlist
Aegon 2009 · Shortlist
Seiobo járt odalent
László Krasznahorkai · 54 when first published
Short stories · 451 pages
AI-generated summary:Stories ranging across ages and cultures, from biblical times to the present, whose true heroes are works of beauty, made by people or by nature, perfect, purposeless and impossible to resist.