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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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Grue, Anna
Danish writer Anna Grue is an editor and journalist whose crime novels have been very favorably received in her native country and abroad – although she is strangely unknown in Sweden. Grue was born in Nykøbing in 1957. Both her parents were physicians. The family moved on to Randers in 1960, then to Aalborg in 1969. At home, her parents openly discussed diseases and deaths in a professional wa...
