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  • Bibliography:
    14 Books
  • First Book:
    November 2000
  • Latest Book:
    September 2024
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Book List in Order: 14 titles



  • From the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize A powerful, surreal novel, in the tradition of Gogol, about the chaotic events surrounding the arrival of a circus in a small Hungarian town. The Melancholy of Resistance, László Krasznahor...



  • From the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize A novel of awesome beauty and power by the Hungarian master, Laszla Krasznahorkai. Winner of a 2005 PEN Translation Fund Award. War and War, Laszla Krasznahorkai's second novel in English fro...



  • From the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International PrizeAt long last, twenty-five years after the Hungarian genius László Krasznahorkai burst onto the scene with his first novel, Satantango dances into English in a beautiful translation by George...



  • This cahier is the result of a collaboration undertaken specially for The Cahiers Series, between Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai and German painter Max Neumann. Krasznahorkai, author of The Melancholy of Resistance and War & War, responds ...



  • From the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International PrizeThe latest novel from “the contemporary Hungarian master of the apocalypse” (Susan Sontag) Seiobo -- a Japanese goddess -- has a peach tree in her garden that blossoms once every three...



  • Winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize War & War begins at a point of danger: on a dark train platform Korim is on the verge of being attacked and robbed by thuggish teenagers. From here, we are carried along by the insistent voice of...



  • Now in paperback, two novellas from the Hungarian master László Krasznahorkai -- “one of the most mysterious artists now at work” (Colm Toíbín) The Last Wolf (translated by George Szirtes) is Krasznahorkai in a maddening nutshell -- it f...



  • Two short masterworks by the most recent winner of the Man Booker International Prize: here, in miniature, is every reason why he won

    The Last Wolf, translated by George Szirtes, features a classic, obsessed Krasznahorkai narrator, a man h...



  • Now in paperback, a transcendent and wide-ranging collection of stories by László Krasznahorkai: “a visionary writer of extraordinary intensity and vocal range who captures the texture of present-day existence in scenes that are terrifying, stran...






  • WINNER OF THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE "Krasznahorkai’s masterpiece" (The Millions); "Apocalyptic, visionary, and mad" (Publishers Weekly); "One of the supreme achievements of contemporary literature" (Paris Review); "Obse...



  • A classic escape nightmare, Chasing Homer is sped on not only by Krasznahorkai’s signature velocity, but also by a unique musical score and intense illustrations In this thrilling chase narrative, a hunted being escapes certain death at breakneck s...



  • A joyful ode -- in a single soaring, crazy sentence -- to the interconnectedness of great (and mad) minds Spadework for a Palace bears the subtitle “Entering the Madness of Others” and offers an epigraph: “Reality is no obstacle.” Indeed. Thi...



  • A quiet, poetic, and exquisitely gorgeous novel describing a wandering mythic figure in a Kyoto monastery, by the National Book Award winner The grandson of Prince Genji lives outside of space and time and wanders the grounds of an old monastery in K...



  • The National Book Award winner’s breathtaking new novel about neo-Nazis, particle physics, and Johann Sebastian BachThe gentle giant Florian Herscht has a problem: having faithfully attended Herr Köhler’s adult education classes ...


Award-Winning Books by Laszlo Krasznahorkai

Satantango
2013 Best Translated Book Award -- Fiction
Seiobo There Below
2014 Best Translated Book Award -- Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Laszlo Krasznahorkai has published 14 books.

The next book by Laszlo Krasznahorkai, Herscht 07769, will be published in September 2024.

The first book by Laszlo Krasznahorkai, The Melancholy of Resistance, was published in November 2000.

No. Laszlo Krasznahorkai does not write books in series.