The Formentor Prize for Letters was awarded this year to the Hungarian Lászlo Krasznahorkai. The award was founded six decades ago by a group of the most prominent European editors such as Claude Gallimard, Giulio Einaudi and Carlos Barral.
One cannot help but admire the work of Sandor Marai, whose fame only spread after his death in 1989. The Hungarian dynasty Hungarian literature offered several relevant names in the last century, including Peter Esterhazy, Imre Kertész and Milan Kundera.