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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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Norman, Andreas
Author Andreas Norman’s mother is the social anthropologist Karin Norman, and his father the psychoanalyst Johan Norman. At first, Andreas wanted to become an actor. He studied at Calle Flygare’s theatre school during his school years, but eventually decided that what he wanted to be was a poet. In 1996, he got a collection of poetry entitled I dagarnas lutning published. His dream of becoming a w...
