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Nobel Prize in literature 2025 to
Krasznahorkai, László
The Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai was born in a Jewish middle-class family in Gyula, southeast Hungary, which he describes as "a rather strange, sad place, full of lonely, peculiar people". His father was a lawyer and his mother a social security administrator. Krasznahorkai deserted from military service after having been punished for insubordination, and he drifted around for a few y...
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Tvedt, Chris
The Norwegian author Baard Christian Tvedt was born in Bergen. He read architecture at the University of Birmingham, but dropped out after four years without graduating. He was instead awarded degrees in law and literature at the University of Bergen before working at the legal department of the Haugesund police department in 1987. He started his own legal practice the following year and...
