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Nobel week was going on Stockholm And oslo News conferences and lectures will be held with the award winners before being awarded the prestigious awards.
Hungarian Laszlo Krasznahorkai, who won a prize in literature for his surreal and anarchist novels that combine a stark world view with bleak humor, was expected to give a lecture in Stockholm on Sunday in one of his rare public appearances.
When Nobel judges announced the prize in October, they described the 71-year-old as “a great epic writer” whose work is “characterized by absurdity and grotesque excess.”
“Krasznahorkai’s work can be seen as part of the Central European tradition,” the nobel prize The organization said. “The important characteristics are pessimism and apocalypse, but also humor and unpredictability.”
Last year’s winner was a South Korean author Han Kangwas the winner of 2023 norwegian Author John Fosse, whose work consists of a seven-book epic composed of a single sentence.
Meanwhile, Norwegian Nobel Institute director Kristian Harpviken said Saturday that Venezuelan peace laureate and opposition leader Maria Corina Machado will come to Oslo this week to receive her prize in person.
The 58-year-old, who won fame for her struggle to achieve democratic change in the South American nation, has been in hiding and has not been seen in public since January.
Harpviken told Norwegian public broadcaster NRK that Machado is expected to receive the award in person on Wednesday.
“I spoke to the peace laureate last night and she will come to Oslo,” Harpviken said, according to NRK.
The Nobel Prize award ceremonies are held on 10 December, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death in 1896. The Peace Prize ceremony takes place in Oslo and other ceremonies take place in Stockholm.