After the announcement of the Nobel Prize on Thursday, Krasznahorkai gave a few telephone interviews. He was then in Frankfurt to visit a friend.
At the same time, the message came that he would give the opening speech at the Book Fair the week after – but it did not become so. The fair's press chief Torsten Casimir announced on Tuesday that László Krasznahorkai had cancelled the evening before, reports SVT.
We regret this, of course. It is as it is and we wish him all the best. We want to greet and congratulate him wherever he may be, said Torsten Casimir when he initiated the press conference, according to SVT.
According to Frankfurter Allgemeine Krasznahorkai had no other performances planned at the fair.
