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Novelist; Nobel laureate in literature
Hungary · b. 1954
Hungarian novelist, author of Satantango and The Melancholy of Resistance, and a long-standing collaborator of the film-maker Béla Tarr. Awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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I’m very happy and I’m very proud, because to be in the line which contains so many really great writers and poets gives me power to use my original language, the Hungarian language. I am really very proud and very happy to use this little language.
Recorded Jenny Rydén, Telephone interview following the announcement of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature, The Nobel Prize, October 2025 source ↗
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