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László Krasznahorkai, whose family hid Jewish roots during Holocaust, wins literature Nobel

JL;DR SUMMARY László Krasznahorkai, a Hungarian novelist celebrated for his complex, apocalyptic prose, has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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HolocaustJewish AuthorsJewish HeritageNobel PrizeHungarian LiteratureLászló KrasznahorkaiImre KertészBéla TarrMoral Disintegration

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Gyula, Békés, Hungary
"Born in 1954 in the small Hungarian town of Gyula to a Jewish family that survived the Holocaust and concealed its identity, Krasznahorkai has spent decades chronicling moral disintegration and spiritual endurance."
Sweden
"On Thursday, the Swedish Academy awarded Krasznahorkai, 71, the Nobel Prize in Literature."

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