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Elias Canetti (Ruse 25 July, 1905- Zurich, 13 August, 1994) was a Bulgarian-born British-Austrian novelist and Nobel Prize in Literature winner, who wrote around German.

Life
Natural inside Rustschuk (at present Ruse, Bulgaria) to a Jewish personal world health organization experienced yearn worked around trade, he spent his little one years from either 1905 to 1911 in Rustschuk, (Bulgaria) until the personal moved to England, because of his father's profession. Within 1912 his father died and his mother moved by having her kids to Vienna in the same season. By this period Canetti already spoke Ladino, Bulgarian, English and some French (he studied a latter deuce inside the a single month in England). Still, existence inside Vienna from a age of Seven ahead, the independent language he utilized (taught by his mother) was German. In a next Decade years the personal moved foremost from either 1916 to 1921 to Zurich and then until 1924 to Germany where Canetti graduated from high.

Canetti went back inside Vienna in 1924 in order to study chemistry. Nonetheless his very ambition when you took his years within Vienna was philosophy & literature. Introduced into a literary circles of number one republic-Vienna, he started writing. He gained the degree around chemistry from the University of Vienna in 1929, but never worked as a chemist. Inside 1938, after a Anschluss of Austria, Canetti moved to London where he settled and stayed until a 1970s and received British citizenship in 1952. For his go Twenty years, Canetti preponderantly sleep in Zurich.

Works
Die Hochzeit (A Wedding, play, 1932) Komoedie five hundred Eitelkeit 1934 (A Comedy of Vanity) Die Blendung 1935 (Auto-da-Fé, novel, tr.1946) Die Befristeten 1956 (? premiere of the play within Oxford) (Their Times come Numbered) Masse shot und Macht 1960 (Crowds & Power, learn, tr. 1962, promulgated inside Hamburg) Aufzeichnungen 1942-48 1965(Sketches) Die Stimmen von Marrakesch 1968 published by Hanser inside Munich (A Voices of Marrakesh, travelog, tr. 1978) 500 andere Prozess 1969 Kafkas Briefe an Felice (''Kafka's More Test, tr. 1974). Hitler nach Speer (Essay) Die Provinz des Menschen Aufzeichnungen 1942-1972 (A Man Province, tr. 1978) Five hundred Ohrenzeuge. Fuenfzig Charaktere 1974 (Ear Witness: Fifty Characters, tr. 1979). Das Gewissen five hundred Worte 1975. Essays (A Conscience of Words) Die Gerettete Zunge 1977 (A Tongue Placed Absolutely free!, memoir, tr. 1979) Die Fackel im Ohr 1980 Lebensgeschichte 1921-1931 (A Torch inside Our Ear, memoir, tr. 1982) Cony Augenspiel 1985 Lebensgeschichte 1931-1937 (A Play of the Eyes, memoir, tr. 1990) Das Geheimherz 500 Uhr: Aufzeichnungen 1987 (A Secret Heart of the Clock, tr. 1989) Die Fliegenpein (A Agony of Flies, 1992) Nachträge aus Hampstead (Notes from either Hampstead, 1994) Person im Blitz; Die englischen Jahre 2003 (Person in the Blitz, memoir, published posthumously, tr. 2005) Aufzeichnungen für Marie-Louise (written 1942, compiled & published posthumously, 2005

Elias Canetti, Winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Literature
Elias Canetti, a Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature, at the Nobel Prize Internet Archive.

Biographical information on Canetti
"Elias Canetti was a Bulgarian-born English novelist, essayist, sociologist ..."

Elias Canetti Obituary
Boston Globe Online.

The Inner Life of Elias Canetti
Review of Canetti's "The torch in my ear" by Robert Taylor in Boston Globe Online.

Nobel Prize for Literature 1981: Elias Canetti
Press release and curriculum vitae.






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