'Visionary' Laszlo Krasznahorkai wins 2015 Booker prize

Sixty-one-year-old Hungarian author Laszlo Krasznahorka has been awarded the Man Booker International Prize for his achievement in fiction on the world stage.

Honouring his work, the 'Seiobo There Below,' author has been given 60,000 pounds, the Guardian has reported.

Chair of judges, Marina Warner, compared the author's work to Franz Kafka, his own personal literary hero, and said that she felt that they had encountered someone of that order.

The academic and writer added that was a trick that the best writers pull off; they give a person the thrill of the strange, and then, after a while, they imaginatively retune you.

Krasznahorkai was one of 10 writers shortlisted for this year's award, alongside authors, including India's Amitav Ghosh, Libya's Ibrahim al-Koni, Mozambique's Mia Couto and America's Fanny Howe.

The author, whose first novel, 'Satantango,' was published to huge acclaim in Hungary in 1985 and was later adapted for the cinema by the filmmaker Bela Tarr, has also won other literary prizes, including the highest Hungarian state cultural honour, the Kossuth prize and the Best Translated Book award in the US two years in a row.