The Phoenix interviewed Iyer through an email exchange. An edited record of this correspondence is below.

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Author and critic Lincoln Michel talks about Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai's Nobel win and what it shows about who gets recognized in world literature.

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Laszlo Krasznahorkai won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature for his 'compelling and visionary' work that 'reaffirms the power ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to László Krasznahorkai, a Hungarian novelist who said his dark and difficult novels aim to examine reality “to the point of madness.”Announcing the ...

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai, whose philosophical, bleakly funny novels often unfold in single sentences, won the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for his “compelling and ...