László Krasznahorkai – books podcast
We talk to the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International prize, the visionary Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai
This week we're celebrating the finest contemporary literature the world has to offer, with the Man Booker International prize.
We begin at a Guardian Live event at the British Library, where shortlisted writers including Marlene van Niekerk, Maryse Condé, Hoda Barakat and Fanny Howe joined Claire Armitstead at an event marking the 2015 award.
Back in the studio, the 2015 winner, László Krasznahorkai, and one of his translators, George Szirtes, discuss the Hungarian author's unconventional route into publication, his first novel, Satantango, and his debt to Franz Kafka.
They talk about Krasznahorkai's journeys in Asia, and the formal inventiveness which led him to number the stories in Seiobo There Below according to the Fibonacci sequence.
Reading list
Seiobo There Below by László Krasznahorkai (Tuskar Rock)
Satantango by László Krasznahorkai (Atlantic)
Short story: Something is Burning Outside by László Krasznahorkai as part of the Guardian's series Stories from a new Europe
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