Lszl Krasznahorkai has won the 2019 National Book Award for Translated Literature and the 2015 Man Booker International Prize for lifetime achievement. Ottilie Mulzet is a literary critic and translator of Hungarian. She received the 2019 National Book Award for Translated Literature in and the 2014 Best Translated Book Award.
'Krasznahorkai throws down a challenge: raise your game or get your coat... the intensity of his commitment to the art of fiction is indisputable...exhilarating, even euphoric.' - Hari Kunzru 'Lszl Krasznahorkai writes prose of breathtaking energy and beauty ... He has elevated the novel form and is to be ranked among the great European novelists' - Colm Toibin 'The universality of Krasznahorkai's vision rivals that of Gogol's Dead Souls and far surpasses all the lesser concerns of contemporary writing' - W.G. Sebald 'Intensely thought-provoking' - Los Angeles Review of Books 'Beautiful ... through Mulzet's exceptional work, we can appreciate the enchantment of language that is attentive to precise details' - Irish Times