László Krasznahorkai was born in Gyula, Hungary, in 1954. He has written 14 novels and won multiple awards including the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2025, the National Book Award for Translated Literature in 2019 for Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming, the 2015 Man Booker International Prize for lifetime achievement and the 2024 Prix Formentor. Several of his most famous novels, including Satantango and The Melancholy of Resistance , were turned into films by the director Béla Tarr. His books have been translated into forty-two languages. He lives in the hills of Pilisszentlászló in Hungary.John Batki is a writer and translator from Hungary. His translation of The World Goes On , alongside Ottilie Mulzet and George Szirtes, was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2018.