---
name: "László Krasznahorkai"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/laszlo-krasznahorkai"
fi1m_id: "laszlo-krasznahorkai"
imdb_id: "nm0470004"
tmdb_id: 85638
wikidata_id: "Q512062"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "1 May 1954"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T02:25:07.449382+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# László Krasznahorkai

## Identity

László Krasznahorkai

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/laszlo-krasznahorkai
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** laszlo-krasznahorkai
- **IMDb ID:** nm0470004
- **TMDB ID:** 85638
- **Wikidata ID:** Q512062
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_Krasznahorkai, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q512062, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0470004/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/85638

Writer. Born 1 May 1954 in Gyula, Hungary.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 1 May 1954, Gyula, Hungary
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_Krasznahorkai, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q512062, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0470004/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/85638

## Biography

László Krasznahorkai is a Hungarian novelist and screenwriter. Born in 1954 in Gyula, Hungary, he studied law at the universities of Szeged and Budapest before turning to Hungarian language and literature.

His debut novel *Satantango* (1985) was adapted by director Béla Tarr into the 1994 film of the same name, for which Krasznahorkai wrote the screenplay. He has collaborated extensively with Tarr on other films, including *Damnation* (1988), *Werckmeister Harmonies* (2000) and *The Turin Horse* (2011).

In 2025 Krasznahorkai was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, nobelprize.org, britannica.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Satantango* (1994), Fi1m 84, Novel, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/satantango.md)

## Complete filmography (6)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Turin Horse* (2011), Screenplay, Author
- *The Man from London* (2008), Screenplay
- *Werckmeister Harmonies* (2001), Writer, Novel
- *Satantango* (1994), Novel, Screenplay — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/satantango.md)
- *The Last Boat* (1990), Writer
- *Damnation* (1988), Writer

## Gallery

- ![László Krasznahorkai](https://film.one/media/person/3929490/gallery-ce63ef7f6f86.jpg) László Krasznahorkai — Miklós Déri, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/Krasznahorkai_L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_portrait.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Krasznahorkai László Kossuth-díjas magyar író.](https://film.one/media/person/3929490/gallery-6cf315932a9d.jpg) Krasznahorkai László Kossuth-díjas magyar író. — Lenke Szilágyi, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/Krasznahorkai_L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Krasznahorkai László Kossuth-díjas magyar író. (1990)](https://film.one/media/person/3929490/gallery-fe9dc5d4a882.jpg) Krasznahorkai László Kossuth-díjas magyar író. (1990) — Lenke Szilágyi, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/Krasznahorkai_L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3%2C_Koppenh%C3%A1ga%2C_1990.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Writer Lázló Krasznahorkai at Stadtgarten Köln/Cologne, Germany (2016)](https://film.one/media/person/3929490/gallery-64c3d4a74b07.jpg) Writer Lázló Krasznahorkai at Stadtgarten Köln/Cologne, Germany (2016) — Hpschaefer www.reserv-art.de, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fe/Krasznahorkai%2C-L%C3%A1zlo_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Writer Lázló Krasznahorkai at Stadtgarten Köln/Cologne, Germany (2016)](https://film.one/media/person/3929490/gallery-d5de95ed3ab1.jpg) Writer Lázló Krasznahorkai at Stadtgarten Köln/Cologne, Germany (2016) — Hpschaefer www.reserv-art.de, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/Krasznahorkai%2C-L%C3%A1zl%C3%B3_koen-stadtgarten_031116_1_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Krasznahorkai László a 2012-es budapesti Könyvfesztiválon.](https://film.one/media/person/3929490/gallery-f9053ce3938e.jpg) Krasznahorkai László a 2012-es budapesti Könyvfesztiválon. — Derzsi Elekes Andor, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Krasznahorkai_L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_in_K%C3%B6nyvfesztiv%C3%A1l%2C_2012.jpg/1280px-Krasznahorkai_L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_in_K%C3%B6nyvfesztiv%C3%A1l%2C_2012.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Other awards — 17 won, 1 nominated

- Artisjus Award 2026: Artisjus Award (won)
- honorary citizen of Szentendre 2026: honorary citizen of Szentendre (won)
- Nobel Prize in Literature 2025: Nobel Prize in Literature (won)
- Prix Formentor 2024: Prix Formentor (won)
- Prix Laure Bataillon 2023: Prix Laure Bataillon (won)
- Austrian State Prize for European Literature 2021: Austrian State Prize for European Literature (won)
- National Book Award for Translated Literature 2019: National Book Award for Translated Literature (won), for *Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming*
- International Booker Prize 2018: International Booker Prize (nominated), for *The World Goes On*
- International Booker Prize 2015: International Booker Prize (won)
- America Award in Literature 2014: America Award in Literature (won)
- Vilenica Prize 2014: Vilenica Prize (won)
- Prize of the Society of Writers 2008: Prize of the Society of Writers (won)
- Kossuth Prize 2004: Kossuth Prize (won)
- Laureate of the Hungarian Republic 2002: Laureate of the Hungarian Republic (won)
- Alföld Prize 1999: Alföld Prize (won)
- Márai Sándor Prize 1998: Márai Sándor Prize (won)
- Preis der SWR-Bestenliste 1993: Preis der SWR-Bestenliste (won)
- Móricz Zsigmond Grant 1983: Móricz Zsigmond Grant (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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