Hungarian writer Laszlo Krasznahorkai, whose philosophical, bleakly funny novels often unfold in single sentences, has won the Nobel Prize in literature for his “compelling and visionary oeuvre”.
Krasznahorkai joins an illustrious list of laureates that includes Ernest Hemingway, Albert Camus and Toni Morrison.
The literature prize has been awarded by the Nobel Committee of the Swedish Academy 117 times to a total of 121 winners.
