Stockholm (d.de) – The 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to László Krasznahorkai, who lived in Berlin from 1987 till 1988. The author had been invited by the Artists-in-Berlin Programme of the German Tutorial Change Service (DAAD) to dwell and work within the capital metropolis that was nonetheless divided on the time. He’s the seventh Artists-in-Berlin Fellow to obtain this highest literary award.
Germany has all the time been a key reference level of Krasznahorkai’s work, which the Swedish Academy described as “compelling and visionary”. The creator’s 2021 novel “Herscht 07769” is the story of a village neighborhood in Thuringia in Jap Germany wherein neo-Nazis acquire affect. The e book addresses the query, when and the way democratic societies ought to reply to rising right-wing ideologies.
“We’re delighted that László Krasznahorkai as yet one more alumni of the DAAD’s Artists-in-Berlin Programme is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature,” mentioned DAAD President Joybrato Mukherjee. “The truth that Mr Krasznahorkai spent a 12 months in Berlin underscores the worldwide significance of the programme as a hub of free inventive trade.”
Since 1963, greater than 1,200 artists from the areas of superb artwork, movie, literature and music have been invited by the Artists-in-Berlin Programme to dwell and work in Berlin.
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