László Krasznahorkai author biography, plus links to books by László Krasznahorkai.

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László Krasznahorkai

The winner of the 2019 National Book Award for Translated Literature and the 2015 Man Booker International Prize for lifetime achievement, László Krasznahorkai was born in Gyula, Hungary.

John Batki is a kilimologist*, writer, translator, and visual artist. He was born in Hungary and has lived in the United States since age fourteen.

Max Neumann is a leading German painter who turns the human figure into an abstract symbol, reducing his compositions to their pure essence. He has had more than 150 solo exhibitions around the world and lives in Berlin.

Szilveszter Miklós, a Hungarian jazz drummer and improviser, graduated from the Franz Liszt Academy and is one of the pioneering figures in Budapest's free music scene.

*An expert in kilim weaving.

This biography was last updated on 11/02/2021.

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