WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 2025 Human being - astonishing creature - who are you? Delivered in Stockholm in December 2025, Enough About Angels is the extraordinary Nobel Lecture from Laszlo Krasznahorkai. Characteristically brilliant and unforgettable, it is a message about hope, compassion, the force of humanity and how, from our degraded current epoch, destruction might emerge - or rebellion. ''A compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art'' Nobel Prize Judges TRANSLATED BY OTTILIE MULZET

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László Krasznahorkai was born in Gyula, Hungary, in 1954. He has written 14 novels and won multiple awards including the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2025, the National Book Award for Translated Literature in 2019 for Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming, the 2015 Man Booker International Prize for lifetime achievement and the 2024 Prix Formentor. Several of his most famous novels, including Satantango and The Melancholy of Resistance, were turned into films by the director Béla Tarr. His books have been translated into forty-two languages, and his most recent, Herscht 07769, was published in 2024. He lives in the hills of Pilisszentlászló in Hungary.

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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 2025

Human being - astonishing creature - who are you?

Delivered in Stockholm in December 2025, Enough About Angels is the extraordinary Nobel Lecture from László Krasznahorkai. Characteristically brilliant and unforgettable, it is a message about hope, compassion, the force of humanity and how, from our degraded current epoch, destruction might emerge - or rebellion.

'A compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art' Nobel Prize Judges

TRANSLATED BY OTTILIE MULZET