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 Kertesz was the only Hungarian to win the Nobel literature prize. He was honoured in 2002. Krasznahorkai, now 71, was born in Gyula, a small town in southeast Hungary in 1954, and grew up...
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