A Mountain To The North, A Lake To The South, Paths To The West, A River To The East: Winner Of The Nobel Prize In Literature 2025

About the author

Ottilie Mulzet

Laszlo Krasznahorkai was born in Gyula, Hungary, in 1954. He has written 14 novels and won multiple awards including the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2025, the National Book Award for Translated Literature in 2019 for Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming, the 2015 Man Booker International Prize for lifetime achievement and the 2024 Prix Formentor. Several of his most famous novels, including Satantango a nd The Melancholy of Resistance, were turned into films by the director Bela Tarr. His books have been translated into forty-two languages, and his most recent, Herscht 07769, was published in 2024. He lives in the hills of Pilisszentlaszlo in Hungary. Ottilie Mulzet is a literary critic and translator of Hungarian. She received the 2019 National Book Award for Translated Literature and the 2014 Best Translated Book Award.

Laszlo Krasznahorkai