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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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Egeland, Tom
Norwegian author and journalist, born in Oslo and raised in the suburb of Kalbakken in Groruddalen, where his parents had a couple of shops. One of his forefathers is Jon Flatabø from Kvam in Hardanger, who wrote so-called ‘folkedikter’ and was one of the pioneers in Norwegian popular literature. As a young teenager, Egeland was for a short period active in the Christian youth club Heimdal, but he...
