Elias Canetti

Elias Canetti
Born(1905-07-25)25 July 1905
Ruse, Bulgaria
Died14 August 1994(1994-08-14) (aged 89)
Zürich, Switzerland
OccupationNovelist
LanguageGerman
Nationality
  • Bulgarian
  • British
Alma materUniversity of Vienna (PhD, 1929)
Notable awardsNobel Prize in Literature
1981
Spouse
Veza Taubner-Calderon
(m. 1934; died 1963)
Hera Buschor
(m. 1971)

Elias Canetti (Bulgarian: Елиас Канети; 25 July 1905 – 14 August 1994; /kəˈnɛti, kɑː-/;[1] German pronunciation: [eˈliːas kaˈnɛti][2]) was a German-language writer, born in Ruse, Bulgaria to a Sephardic Jewish family. They moved to Manchester, England, but his father died in 1912, and his mother took her three sons back to continental Europe. They settled in Vienna.

Canetti moved to England in 1938 after the Anschluss to escape Nazi persecution. He became a British citizen in 1952. He is known as a modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and nonfiction writer.[3] He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981, "for writings marked by a broad outlook, a wealth of ideas and artistic power".[4] He is noted for his nonfiction book Crowds and Power, among other works.

  1. ^ "Canetti". Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.
  2. ^ Dudenredaktion: Duden – Das Aussprachewörterbuch [The Pronunciation Dictionary] (7th ed.). Berlin: Dudenverlag.
  3. ^ Lorenz, Dagmar C.G. (2009). "Introduction". A Companion to the Works of Elias Canetti. Twayne Publishers. pp. 350. ISBN 978-080-578-276-9.
  4. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Literature 1981". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 8 April 2014.

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