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Hungarian writer Laszlo Krasznahorkai won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature, the award-giving body said on Thursday. The prize is awarded by the Swedish Academy and is worth 11 million crowns ($1.6 million Cdn). Mats Malm, permanent secretary at the Swedish Academy, praised Krasznahorkai’s “visionary oeuvre that, in the midst …

South Korean author Han Kang won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature for “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life,” the award-giving body said on Thursday. “She has a unique awareness of the connections between body and soul, the living and …