One of the great inventors of new forms in contemporary literature ... there is nothing else like it in contemporary literature Adam Thirwell New York Review of Books
László Krasznahorkai was born in Gyula, Hungary, in 1954. He has written five novels and won numerous prizes, including the 2013 Best Translated Book Award in Fiction for Satantango, the same prize the following year for Seiobo There Below, and the 1993 Best Book of the Year Award in Germany for The Melancholy of Resistance. He was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2017 for The World Goes On, and won the same prize in 2015 in its original guise as a biennial prize rewarding an outstanding body of work. His books have been translated into more than thirty languages. He lives in the hills of Pilisszentlászló in Hungary.
Ottilie Mulzet won the Best Translated Book Award in 2014 for her translation of László Krasznahorkai's Seiobo there Below. She has also translated the work of Szilárd Borbély, Gábor Schein, and György Dragomán.
