The Hungarian László Krasznahorkai will receive the Formentor Prize for Letters in Marrakech (Morocco) on September 27th.

MADRID, April 5 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai receives the Formentor of Letters Award next September 27th in Marrakesh (Morocco)in a ceremony that will take place at the Barceló Palmeraie Hotel in the city, as announced by the Formentor Foundation, organizer of the awards.

The presentation of this award, This year’s winner, announced last March, is part of the 17th edition of the Formentor Literary Conversationswhich takes place in Marrakech until September 29th under the motto “Geniuses, Nomads and Bedouins”.

In this way, on Thursday September 26th, a colloquium on Spanish cultural magazines will open the conference, with the aim of addressing the dilemmas, challenges and challenges that editors solve in the media of information, analysis and cultural criticism.

As in previous years, participation in the Literary Conversations is free upon registration as long as capacity is not exhausted, and they once again bring together writers, teachers, critics, editors, journalists and translators who are dedicated to the art of conversation.

According to the minutes of the jury that met in Tangier last March, the Hungarian writer receives the award “for maintaining the narrative power that envelops, reveals, hides and transforms the reality of the world, for expanding the fictional version of the mysterious. “ human existence to stimulate intensive reading of a complex invention and to construct the fascinating labyrinths of the literary imagination.

“Our winner’s work encompasses, in its elliptical and delayed evocation, the dark, beautiful and melancholy landscapes of the soul, the abrupt cartography of the tortuous human pilgrimage and the secret murmurs of selfish foreboding.“, Add.

In the plot of surprising fictions, László Krasznahorkai’s characters are characterized by their languid, hidden and curly personalities. In the course of his narrative, consciousness and adventure, irony and sadness, madness and the sacred flow in the rhythm of meditative rumination. The characters are always dense, unpredictable, and on the verge of insane redemption.

László Krasznahorkai’s narrative structures and his detailed, slow and drawn-out style reveal the creative energy of a literature completely alien to the industrial influence of entertainment. TO Over the decades, his work has brought together an international community of readers committed to the artistic tradition of the European novel.

“Las obras de László Krasznahorkai They give us back the virtuous phlegm of reading and contemplating the strange, solemn, lethargic, dark and voluptuous that beats in the human heart. In doing so, our author renews the aesthetic authority of great literature. In order to make readers aware of the heritage of the Hungarian language, for restoring the unnoticed dimensions of the imagination and for the virtuosity of his elegant writing“The jury awards the Formentor Literature Prize 2024 to the Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai,” he emphasizes.

BIOGRAPHY OF THE AUTHOR

László Krasznahorkai was born on January 5, 1954 in Gyula (Hungary). He studied law and Hungarian language and literature and, after working as an editor for a few years, became a writer. He left communist Hungary in 1987 when he traveled to West Berlin on a scholarship.

In the early 1990s he spent extended periods in Mongolia and China and later Japan – places that brought aesthetic and stylistic changes to his writing. While writing the novel War and War (1999), he traveled through Europe and lived in Allen Ginsberg’s apartment in New York. He now lives in seclusion in the hills of Szentlászló.

His first novel “Satantango” (1985), translated “Satanic Tango”, brought him to the center of Hungarian literary life and remains his best-known work. “Melancholy of Resistance” (1989) is also notable; both novels were made into films by his friend, the director Béla Tarr.

Other of his works translated into Spanish are: “War and War”; “In the north the mountain, in the south the lake, in the west the road, in the east the river”; “Isaiah has arrived”; “And Seiobo descended to the earth”; “Merciful Relationships” and “The Last Wolf.”

However, in March 2004, the author received the Hungarian government’s Kossuth Prize, one of the most prestigious in his country, for his entire work; the International Man Booker in May 2015; in April 2021 he was awarded the Austrian Prize for European Literature and in 2024 he was awarded the Formentor Literature Prize.