Hungarian writer Laszlo Krasznahorkai has won the
prestigious Man Booker International Prize for 2015. He was chosen from
a list of 10 contenders from around the world.
About Laszlo Krasznahorkai
* Laszlo Krasznahorkai was born in 1954 Gyula, Hungary.
* He had gained recognition in 1985 after he had published
his debut novel Satantango, which he adapted for the big screen in 1994.
* Krasznahorkai’s other famous novels are The Melancholy of
Resistance (1989), War and War (1999), Seiobo There Below (2008).
* Awards and Honours: In 1993, he was awarded
Bestenliste-Prize of Germany
for his novel The Melancholy of Resistanc.
* In 2004, he was awarded with most prestigious cultural
award in Hungary- The Kossuth Prize.
About Man Booker International Prize
* The prize, worth £60,000, recognizes an authors’s
achievement in fiction.
* It is a biennial award, bestowed upon a living author who
has published fiction either originally in English or whose work is available
in translation in the English language.
* The prize is sponsored by Man Group plc,
which also sponsors the Man Booker Prize for Fiction.
* Unlike the UK Man Booker Prize for Fiction, publishers
cannot submit authors’ works for consideration.
* The Prize is significantly different in that it highlights
one writer’s overall contribution to fiction on the world stage.
* The judges, who
solely decide the winner, consider a writer’s body of work rather than a single
novel.
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