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Nobel Prize in literature 2025 to
Krasznahorkai, László
The Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai was born in a Jewish middle-class family in Gyula, southeast Hungary, which he describes as "a rather strange, sad place, full of lonely, peculiar people". His father was a lawyer and his mother a social security administrator. Krasznahorkai deserted from military service after having been punished for insubordination, and he drifted around for a few y...
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Sarenbrant, Sofie
Author and freelance journalist Sofie Sarenbrant (born Sjöstedt) grew up on Narebo Gård in Gusum, in Valdemarsvik municipality, together with three siblings. Her mother is a journalist specialising in interior design, and her father is a photographer. Sofie Sarenbrant has spent many summers in the family’s holiday house in Brantevik, a coastal village in the south of Sweden, which gave her the ins...