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László Krasznahorkai – Banquet speech - NobelPrize.org

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Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Excellences, Dear Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen, I wish to thank the Swedish Academy, and the Nobel Foundation! Thank you! I thank all of my publishers and translators, I thank the building of the Swedish Academy and the dear light falling into that room as the final decision was being made in the awarding of this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature, And I give my thanks to Uncle Kerekes, sexton of the Gyula Romanian Orthodox church and cobbler, who is no longer among the ranks of the living, as the precise time of his death had come, I give my thanks to my friend Jóska Pálnik, who told me, on the second stair of the Water Slide Pool in 1960, how babies are made, and under the grievous weight of this revelation I wanted to die, I give my thanks to Franz Kafka, whose novel Der Schoss I read when I was twelve years old so that I would be accepted in the circle of my brother, six years older than me; and so my fate was sealed, I give my thanks to the

Navigate to: Summary -- Facts -- Nobel Prize lecture -- Prose -- Prize presentation -- Banquet speech -- Nobel diploma -- Interview -- Photo gallery -- Other resources Prize announcement Press release Bio-bibliography Award ceremony speech Award ceremony video László Krasznahorkai’s speech at the Nobel Prize banquet, 10 December 2025 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Excellences, Dear Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen, I wish to thank the Swedish Academy, and the Nobel Foundation! Thank you! I thank all of my publishers and translators, I thank the building of the Swedish Academy and

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