Lazlo Krasznahorkai is one of the great Hungarian writers of his generation, an author whose work has been celebrated across Europe for years. His acclaimed debut novel, Satanstango, first published in Hungary at the end of the Soviet era, is finally set to be translated into English thanks to the support of the Irish novelist Colm Tóibín.
His 1993 novel 'The Melancholy of Resistance' received the German “Bestenliste-Prize” for the best literary work of the year. He has been honoured with numerous literary prizes, among them the highest award of the Hungarian state, the Kossuth Prize.