László Krasznahorkai
László Krasznahorkai is a Hungarian novelist and screenwriter. He was the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International prize
Werckmeister Harmonies review – Béla Tarr’s brooding masterpiece of a town sleepwalking into tyranny
Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky’s 2000 film moves slowly around a small town where a very strange circus has arrived. Its eerie power has only grown in a time of rising fascism
Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming by László Krasznahorkai review - fake news as comedy of errors
A work of dark wit and dizzying prose
Top 10s
Top 10 books about strange townsFrom JG Ballard’s corporate towns of the near future to Richard Scarry’s animal society in Busytown … Shaun Prescott picks his favourite civilisations in miniature
Iraqi Frankenstein story shortlisted for Man Booker international prize
Novels from Iraq, South Korea, France, Spain, Poland and Hungary in running for £50,000 prize
Man Booker International prize longlist: Han Kang up for top gong again
Previous winners Han and László Krasznahorkai nominated for £50,000 award for translated fiction, on a longlist that spans Iraq to Taiwan
László Krasznahorkai on the trail of Herman Melville – in pictures
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Ariel Levy, Krissy Kneen, Cat Marnell – literary highlights for Australia in March
The Guardian Books podcast
László Krasznahorkai – books podcastWe talk to the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International prize, the visionary Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai
László Krasznahorkai interview: 'This society is the result of 10,000 years?'
The Hungarian writer behind the formally experimental Satantango talks punctuation, inspiration and money-motivation to Richard Lea
Satantango by László Krasznahorkai – review
Theo Tait on a visionary Hungarian classic
Stories from a new Europe
Something Is Burning Outside by Laszlo KrasznahorkaiThe Hungarian author Laszlo Krasznahorkai continues our series of stories marking the upheavals of 1989 with a story set at an artists' retreat
