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Elias Canetti—Nobel Laureate

Death

Elias Canetti died on August 13, 1994, at the age of 89 in Zurich.

Fame

Il grande lavoro su Massa e potere era ...; Elias Canetti, Winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Literature - Elias Canetti, a Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature, at the Nobel Prize Internet Archive.; Canetti Elias - AdelphiUn regno di matite.

Elias Canetti, best known in the English-speaking world for his autobiographies, Kafka's Other Trial and for the classic Auto-da-Fe, was born in Bulgaria in 1905.

Work

Elias Canetti won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1981. The following press release from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences describes Canetti's work: When surveyed, Elias Canetti's literary work may seem split up, comprising as it does of so many genres.

Elias Canetti, whose native language is Ladino, opted for German, though he lived most of his life in England and Switzerland.

Elias Canetti ; Thomas Honickel / Germany / 2005 / 59 minutes / German with English subtitles A "Spanish poet of German language," Elias Canetti grew up a polyglot, living at different periods of his life in Bulgaria, England and Vienna. 

Elias Canetti (Rousse, Bulgaria, 25 July 1905 – 14 August 1994, Zurich) was a Bulgaria-born novelist of Sephardi Jewish ancestry who wrote in German and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981.

Elias Canetti was the eldest son in a Jewish merchant family in Rustchuk (present-day Rousse).

Elias Canetti was born in Ruse, a small port in Bulgaria on the river Danube, into a Sephardic Jewish family.

Elias Canetti (1905-1994) was a Bulgarian-born English novelist, essayist, sociologist, and playwright, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1981.