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Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai won the 2025 Nobel Prize for literature, “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.” The Swedish Academy writes, “László Krasznahorkai is a great epic writer in the Central European tradition that extends through Kafka to Thomas Bernhard, and is characterised by absurdism and grotesque excess. But there are more strings to his bow, and he also looks to the East in adopting a more contemplative, finely calibrated tone.” Krasznahorkai’s works include Satantango, The Melancholy of Resistance, and Herscht 07769. Most of his best-known books have …
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Mary Grace Colangelo's ASK ME HOW I KNOW, about five sisters and their mother reeling after the death of their father and husband, and how they come to terms with their loss, and the sins of the past, to find a new understanding of family and sisterhood, and what it means to forgive, to Sarah Stein at Harper, in a major deal, at auction, by Wendy Sherman at Wendy Sherman Associates (NA). Rights also to Jocasta Hamilton at John Murray (UK), in a pre-empt; and to Julia Fronhofer at DTV (Germany), in a pre-empt. … read more
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