Hungarian writer Laszlo Krasznahorkai, who won the Nobel literature prize on Thursday, has been described as the postmodern “master of the apocalypse”. “He is a hypnotic writer,” Krasznahorkai’s English language translator, the poet George Szirtes, told AFP. “He draws you in until the world he conjures echoes and echoes inside you, until it’s your own vision of order and chaos”. Until now, the late Holocaust survivor Imre Kertész was the only Hungarian to win the Nobel literature prize, who in 2002 was honoured “for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history”. Born...
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