Laszlo Krasznahorkai
László Krasznahorkai was born in Gyula, Hungary, in 1954. He has written five novels and won numerous prizes, including the 2013 Best Translated Book Award in Fiction for Satantango, the same prize the following year for Seiobo There Below, and the 1993 Best Book of the Year Award in Germany for The Melancholy of Resistance. He was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2017 for The World Goes On, and won the same prize in 2015 in its original guise as a biennial prize rewarding an outstanding body of work. His books have been translated into more than thirty languages. He lives in the hills of Pilisszentlászló in Hungary.
Books by Laszlo Krasznahorkai

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Laszlo Krasznahorkai
A masterpiece of form and fiction as one of our greatest living writers tackles our fears of environmental disaster

A Mountain to the North, A Lake to The South, Paths to the West, A River to the East
Laszlo Krasznahorkai
An exquisitely beautiful new novel from one of the world's greatest living writers.

Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming
Laszlo Krasznahorkai
The defining master-work of the Man Booker International winner's spectacular career

Satantango
Laszlo Krasznahorkai
Krasznahorkai's extraordinary first novel is back – and more devilish than ever.

The Last Wolf & Herman
Laszlo Krasznahorkai
Now in paperback, two masterly novellas by Europe's preeminent literary genius

Seiobo There Below
Laszlo Krasznahorkai
One of László Krasznahorkai's finest novels available in stunning redesigned paperback

The Melancholy of Resistance
Laszlo Krasznahorkai
One of László Krasznahorkai's finest novels available in stunning redesigned paperback

War and War
Laszlo Krasznahorkai
One of László Krasznahorkai's most loved books, published in the UK for the first time
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