Lszl Krasznahorkai, laureate in literature, speaks during the signing of the Nobel chair at the Nobel Museum in Stockholm, Sweden, Saturday, Dec. 6, 2025. (Claudio Bresciani/TT News Agency via AP)2025-12-07T10:59:26Z STOCKHOLM (AP) Nobel week was underway in Stockholm and Oslo with laureates holding news conferences and lectures before they will be awarded the prestigious prizes. Hungarian Lszl Krasznahorkai, who won the Prize in literature for his surreal and anarchic novels that combine a bleak world view with mordant humor, was expected to give a lecture in Stockholm on Sunday in one of his rare public appearances.When the Nobel judges announced the award in October, they described the 71-year-old as a great epic writer whose work is characterized by absurdism and grotesque excess. Krasznahorkais work can be seen as part of a Central European tradition, the Nobel Prize organization said. Important features are pessimism and apocalypse, but also humor and unpredictability.Last years winner was South Korean author Han Kang. The 2023 winner was Norwegian writer Jon Fosse, whose work includes a seven-book epic made up of a single sentence. Meanwhile, the director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, Kristian Harpviken, said Saturday that Venezuelan Peace Prize laureate and opposition leader Mara Corina Machado will come to Oslo this week to receive her award in person. The 58-year-old, who won for her struggle to achieve a democratic transition in the South American nation, has been hiding and has not been seen in public since January.Harpviken told Norwegian public broadcaster NRK that Machado was expected to personally pick up the prize on Wednesday. I spoke with the Peace Prize winner last night, and she will come to Oslo, Harpviken said, according to NRK.Nobel Prize award ceremonies are held on Dec. 10, the anniversary of Alfred Nobels death in 1896. The award ceremony for peace is in Oslo and the other ceremonies are in Stockholm.