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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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Mehlum, Jan
Jan Mehlum is a Norwegian author and sociologist born in Tønsberg, Vestfold county. He has worked in management and teacher training, he has owned a cinema and he has worked as a press officer for a chain of cinemas, he has taught at the BI Nydalen school of economics, he has been an assistant lecturer at Vestfold University College (HiVe) and he has been involved in local politics for the ...
