2024-03-18 21:00:00
The Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai won the 2024 Formentor de las Letras Prize. The jury highlighted that the author has renewed “the aesthetic authority of great literature.”
The Formentor Foundation reported that, according to the minutes of the jury, meeting in Tangier, the Hungarian writer will receive the award “for sustain the narrative power that envelops, reveals, hides and transforms the reality of the worldfor dilating the novelistic version of the enigmatic human existence, for calling for the vigorous reading of a complex fable and build the fascinating labyrinths of the literary imagination.”
“The work of our winner encompasses in its elliptical and delayed evocation the dark, beautiful and melancholic landscapes of the soul, the abrupt cartography of the sinuous human pilgrimage and the secret murmurs of a self-absorbed premonition,” the statement added.
The literature of Krasznahorkai
In the plot of some surprising fictions, los personajes de László Krasznahorkai They are distinguished by their languid, hidden and curly personality. In his narrative itinerary, conscience and peripeteia, irony and sadness, madness and the sacred, flow to the beat of a meditated rumination. The characters are always dense, unpredictable and on the verge of a delirious redemption.
Krasznahorkai’s narrative structures and its detailed, slow and dilated style, manifest the creative energy of a literature completely foreign to the industrial influence of entertainment. Over the decades, His work has brought together an international community of committed readers with the artistic tradition of the European novel.
“Las obras de László Krasznahorkai nos devolved the virtuous phlegm of reading and contemplation of the strange, solemn, lethargic, dark and voluptuous that beats in the heart of man. Our author thus renews the aesthetic authority of great literature. For all this, to make readers aware the legacy of the Magyar languagefor restoring the unnoticed dimensions of the imagination and for the virtuosity of its elegant writing, the jury awards the Formentor Prize for Letters 2024 to the Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai,” said the Foundation.
Who is László Krasznahorkai?
László Krasznahorkai was born on January 5, 1954 in Gyula, Hungary. He studied Law and Hungarian Language and Literature and, following a few years as an editor, became a writer.
He left communist Hungary in 1987, when he traveled to West Berlin for a scholarship. In the early 1990s, she spent long periods of time in Mongolia and China, and later in Japan, settings that brought aesthetic and stylistic changes to her writing.
While writing the novel War and War (1999), he traveled through Europe and lived in Allen Ginsberg’s apartment in New York. He now lives in seclusion in the hills of Szentlászló.
His first novel, Satantango (1985) translated as Satanic Tango, brought him to the center of Hungarian literary life and remains his best-known work. Also notable is Melancholy of Resistance (1989), both novels made into films by his friend, the director Béla Tarr.
Other of his works translated into Spanish are: To the North the mountain, to the South the lake, to the West the road, to the East the river; Isaiah has arrived; And Seiobo descended to Earth; Merciful Relations and The Last Wolf.
However, in March 2004, the author received the Kossuth Prize from the Hungarian Government, one of the most prestigious in his country, for his entire work; in May 2015, the International Man Booker; and in April 2021, the Austrian Prize for European Literature.
The Formentor Prize was convened for the first time in 1961, it was founded by a renowned group of European editors, among whom were Carlos Barral, Claude Gallimard and Giulio Einaudi.
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