Elias Canetti

Elias Canetti (25 July 1905 – 14 August 1994; ; German: [eˈliːas kaˈnɛti]) was a German-language writer, known as a modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and nonfiction writer.

Born in Ruse, Bulgaria, to a Sephardic Jewish family, he later lived in England, Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. He won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Literature, "for writings marked by a broad outlook, a wealth of ideas and artistic power".

He is noted for his nonfiction book Crowds and Power, among other works.

Notable works: Auto-da-Fé, Tongue Set Free, Crowds and Power, Their Days are Numbered Awards: Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order, Nobel Prize in Literature, Grand Austrian State Prize for Literature, Literature Award of the Bavarian Academy of the Fine Arts, Nelly Sachs Prize, Gottfried-Keller-Preis, Johann-Peter-Hebel-Preis, Franz Kafka Prize, Georg Büchner Prize, Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Education: University of Vienna

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