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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...
Foto: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2014)
Sample of authors
Kepler, Lars
Lars Kepler is the alias that the two writers and married couple Alexander Ahndoril and Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril use when they jointly write crime novels; the first was The Hypnotist (2009, Hypnotisören). It was supposed to be a secret as to who lay behind the pseudonym, but it was revealed already the same year. The book was given a major launch by the publishing house, but met with mixed ...
