Elias Canetti
German-language writer and Nobel laureate
Elias Canetti was a German-language writer born in Bulgaria who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981. He wrote the sociological study Crowds and Power.
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Born 1905 in Ruse, Bulgaria Died 1994
About Elias Canetti
Elias Canetti (1905-1994) wrote novels, plays, memoirs and nonfiction in German. He was born in Ruse, Bulgaria, to a Sephardic Jewish family, and later lived in Austria, England, Germany and Switzerland. He studied in Vienna and left for England to escape Nazi persecution. He died in Zurich in 1994. Crowds and Power is his sociological study. His other works include the novel Auto-da-Fé and the memoir The Torch in My Ear. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981.