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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...
Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2013)
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Eriksson, Kjell
The Swedish author and gardener Kjell Eriksson was born in Uppsala, Sweden and grew up in a working-class family on Ymergatan in the district of Almtuna. His father worked on the railway and his mother was a shop assistant. He has been employed as a construction worker and gardener, and he ran his own garden centre part-time before becoming a full-time author.
Kjell Eriksson has been a trade...
