hulit1-9, Exercise 3: Kertesz (2002) and Krasznahorkai (2025)

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Kertesz: known for decades mainly for one novel, Fatelessness (1975), whose subject, the Holocaust, gave it wide significance. The 2002 prize brought world attention, translations and mixed reactions at home.

Krasznahorkai: built an international reputation more gradually, through Satantango and The Melancholy of Resistance, the films of Bela Tarr, translators, and prizes such as the Man Booker International in 2015, before the Nobel citation of 9 October 2025 for his "compelling and visionary oeuvre".

What the two cases suggest: Hungarian literature reaches the world through a handful of writers and a chain of translators, publishers and juries. Subject (the Holocaust) and form (formal daring) both can carry a writer abroad. The Nobel often confirms a reputation more than it creates one, though it changes how much of a writer's work is translated afterwards.