![]() Krasznahorkai gained recognition in 1985 when he published "Satantango", which he later adapted for a 1994 film with Hungarian filmmaker Bela Tarr, an seven-hour-plus epic about the decline of communism in Eastern Europe shot in black and white. He creates scenes that are "terrifying, strange, appallingly comic, and often shatteringly beautiful", she said, noting that Krasznahorkai was "superbly served" by his translators, George Szirtes and Ottilie Mulzet. ![]() "Laszlo Krasznahorkai is a visionary writer of extraordinary intensity and vocal range," writer and academic Marina Warner, who chaired the panel, said as she announced the winner at an award ceremony in London on Tuesday. ![]() Krasznahorkai, 61, won the prestigious 60,000-pound ($90,000) prize for works that include "The Melancholy of Resistance", "Seiobo There Below" and "Satantango" and was chosen from among ten contenders. By Krisztina Than BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungarian writer Laszlo Krasznahorkai has won the Man Booker International Prize for what the judges said were "magnificent works of deep imagination and complex passions, in which the human comedy verges painfully onto transcendence". ![]()
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