László Krasznahorkai, Nobel Prize for Literature 2025, wins the Foreign Author Section of the Mondello International Literary Prize, a literary award curated and promoted, on behalf of the Municipality of Palermo, by the Sicilia Foundation in collaboration with the Circolo dei Readers Foundation, the Turin International Book Fair and the Lauro Chiazzese Foundation for Art and Culture.
László Krasznahorkai and Vanni Santoni will talk at the Turin International Book Fair on Saturday 16 May at 3.45pm in the Sala Azzurra on the occasion of the awarding of the Prize. Annalena Benini, director of the Salon, will introduce the meeting. The award will be presented by Maria Concetta Di Natale, president of the Sicilia Foundation.
«The 52nd edition of the Mondello Prize comes to life, confirming itself – states president Di Natale – as an increasingly international reality».
Single judge Vanni Santoni chose László Krasznahorkai. His novels are a tale of rural villages in Hungary and communities in disarray awaiting the messiah. The Hungarian writer is the 2025 Nobel Prize winner for Literature for his “compelling and visionary work which, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art”.
The recognition to Krasznahorkai opens the 52nd edition of the Mondello prize whose winners will be announced by the end of June. The selection committee is made up of the writers Viola Ardone and Silvia Avallone and the writer Paolo Giordano.