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"I give my thanks to Franz Kafka, whose novel Der Schoss I read when I was twelve years old so that I would be accepted in the circle of my brother, six years older than me; and so my fate was sealed,"
László Krasznahorkai received the 2025 literature prize “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art”.
© Nobel Prize Outreach
Speech translated by Ottilie Mulzet
"I give my thanks to Franz Kafka, whose novel Der Schoss I read when I was twelve years old so that I would be accepted in the circle of my brother, six years older than me; and so my fate was sealed,"
László Krasznahorkai received the 2025 literature prize “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art”.
© Nobel Prize Outreach
Speech translated by Ottilie Mulzet
