A writer and screenwriter, born in Gyula in 1954, László Krasznahorkai is among the most influential living Hungarian authors, according to the numerous awards he has received, including the International Man Booker Prize in 2015 and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature in 2021. He wrote seven novels and five short story collections that have been translated into several languages and published in many countries. He is the author of Satantango (Bombiani, 2016), finalist for the Gregor Von Rezzori Prize and the European Strega Prize 2017, of The Melancholy of Resistance, published in Italy by Bompiani in 2018, and of Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming, which won him the National Book Award for Translated Literature in 2019. He has also collaborated with director Béla Tarr in the screenplay of five movies, including Satantango (1994), The Man from London (2007), and The Turin Horse (2011).