Man Booker International Prize awarded to Laszlo Krasznahorkai

Laszlo Krasznahorkai has been awarded the Man Booker International Prize yesterday. The biannually presented prize for an achievement in fiction on the world stage goes to the Hungarian writer for his whole body of work. In 1999 Krasznahorkai published “War and War”, a novel in which the tragic hero feels an immediate attraction towards Mario Merz’s igloos in Schaffhasuen upon seeing a photograph of them…
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