The jury awards the 2024 Formentor Literary Prize to the Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai for introducing the heritage of the Hungarian language, for restoring the forgotten dimensions of the imagination and for the virtuosity of his elegant writing.
László Krasznahorkai won this year's prestigious Spanish Formentor international literary award, the jury announced its decision on Saturday.
"The jury awards the 2024 Formentor literary prize to the Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai for making the heritage of the Hungarian language known, for restoring the forgotten dimensions of the imagination and for the virtuosity of his elegant writing"
- reads the announcement sent to MTI.
The five-member board highlighted him in his appreciation
"maintaining the narrative power that enmeshes, reveals, hides and transforms the reality of the world", the construction of fascinating labyrinths of the literary imagination, as well as the Hungarian writer's detailed, slow style, which "reflects the creative energy of literature completely alien to the industrial influence of entertainment".
"Over the decades, his work has brought together an international community of readers committed to the artistic tradition of the European novel"
– said the jury about László Krasznahorkai, recognized with the Kossuth Prize and the International Man Booker Prize, whose eleven books were published in Spanish.
The Formentor International Literary Prize was established in 1961 to recognize the quality and integrity of works that consolidate the prestige and cultural influence of literature. Among the awardees of the first years were, for example, the Irish Samuel Beckett and the Argentinian Jorge Luis Borges.
After a break of several decades, the recognition was revived in 2011, which, among others, could be received by French Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux, Russian Ludmilla Ulickaya, or last year French Pascal Quignar.
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