2015 Man Booker International Prize

 

Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai is announced as the winner of the sixth Man Booker International Prize at an award ceremony at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London on Tuesday May 19,2015

The Man Booker International Prize recognises one writer for his or her achievement in fiction. Worth £60,000, the prize is awarded every two years to a living author who has published fiction either originally in English or whose work is generally available in translation in the English language

Laszlo Krasznahorkai, who writes in Hungarian, was chosen from a list of 10 contenders from around the world.

The judges said of Krasznahorkai's work: "What strikes the reader above all are the extraordinary sentences, sentences of incredible length that go to incredible lengths, their tone switching from solemn to madcap to quizzical to desolate as they go their wayward way."


Born in 1954,Laszlo  Krasznahorkai gained recognition in 1985 when he published Satantango, which he adapted for the big screen in 1994.

Laszlo Krasznahorkai's other books include:

• The Melancholy of Resistance (1989)

• War and War (1999) 

• Seiobo There Below (2008)