
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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Sundstøl, Vidar
Vidar Sundstøl is a Norwegian author of crime fiction. He was born and raised at Vøllestad in the municipality of Drangedal, Telemark province. He attended Bostrak skole, Drangedal Ungdomsskole and Bø videregående skole, and he graduated from a two-term creative writing course at Høgskolen, Telemark, in 1987.
Sundstøl wanted to be an author from a young age, but had little success. In order to ma...