Enough About Angels

László Krasznahorkai was born in Gyula, Hungary, in 1954. He has written fourteen 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 Booker International Prize for lifetime achievement and the 2024 Prix Formentor. Two of his novels, Satantango and The Melancholy of Resistance, were turned into films by the director Béla Tarr. His books have been translated into over forty languages. He lives in the hills of Pilisszentlászló in Hungary.

Krasznahorkai is demanding but funny - although he leaves you with the uneasy sense that the apocalypse is already here