![]() Krasznahorkai was one of 10 writers shortlisted for this year’s award, alongside authors including India’s Amitav Ghosh, Libya’s Ibrahim al-Koni, Mozambique’s Mia Couto and America’s Fanny Howe. It has gone in the past to Ismail Kadare from Albania, Chinua Achebe from Nigeria, two Americans, Philip Roth and Lydia Davis, and one Canadian, Alice Munro. ![]() The biennial Man Booker International is worth £60,000, and is intended to honour a living author for their body of work, either written in English or available in English translation. So now we say, ‘it’s just like being in a Kafka story’ I believe that soon we will say it’s like being in a Krasznahorkai story.” “That’s a trick that the best writers pull off they give you the thrill of the strange … then after a while they imaginatively retune you. “I feel we’ve encountered here someone of that order,” she said. ![]() Chair of judges Marina Warner, the academic and writer, compared Krasznahorkai’s work to Kafka – the author’s own personal literary hero – and Beckett. ![]()
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