Mircea Cărtărescu, after missing the Nobel Prize for Literature: “I will write further, according to my powers”
Mircea Cartarescu within the International Bookfest Book Fair, the 16th edition. Photo: Inquam Photos / Bogdan Buda
Mircea Cărtărescu, the most award-winning Romanian writer, expressed his gratitude for all those who were with him these days, after the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded this year to the Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai.
“I could not thank each one, because there were too many, but I thank all those who have been with me now. I have never had so much heat, appreciation and solidarity in our Romanian community and much outside it,” writes Mircea Cărtărescu, in a message posted on Friday morning.
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“I will write further, according to my powers, along with all those who have the vocation of literature, for the only possible reward for those like us: a book, a poem, a true page,” the writer said.
The message transmitted by Mircea Cărtărescu's wife
For her part, the writer Ioana Nicolaie, Cărtărescu's wife, sent a message of thanks to the community that showed in solidarity with Mircea Cărtărescu.
“I saw a lot of solidarity these days, I was excited by all kinds of posts, at others I smiled, because they were done, and I thought it was not bad at all through our literary-cultural reserve; and it is good.”, Ioana Nicolaie wrote on Thursday night.
László Krasznahorkai, 71, was declared a winner of the Nobel for Literature 2025.
Prior to the awarding of the premiere, the writer Mircea Cărtărescu was considered a favorite at the Nobel Prize for Literature and this year.
