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László Krasznahorkai has won this year’s prestigious Spanish Formentor international literary award, the jury announced on Saturday.
“For the popularization of the heritage of the Hungarian language, the restoration of forgotten dimensions of the imagination and the virtuosity of his elegant writing, the jury awards the 2024 Formentor Literature Prize to the Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai,” the jury wrote in a statement.
The five-member jury praised the Hungarian writer’s “maintenance of a narrative force that envelops, reveals, conceals and transforms the reality of the world,” his ability to build fascinating labyrinths of literary imagination, and his detailed, slow-paced style, which “reflects the creative energy of a literature completely alien to the industrial influence of entertainment.”
El escritor húngaro László Krasznahorkai Premio Formentor de las Letras 2024 https://t.co/E5DKeyZg8U pic.twitter.com/aPIg9cmVbX
— Fundación Formentor (@FundFormentor) March 16, 2024
“Over the decades, his work has brought together an international readership committed to the artistic tradition of the European novel,” said the jury of the Kossuth Prize and International Booker Prize-winning author, László Krasznahorkai, who has eleven books published in Spanish.
Via MTI, Featured image: Hungary Today