The Nobel Prize in Literature 1981
Awarded on: 1981-10-15
"for writings marked by a broad outlook, a wealth of ideas and artistic power"
Elias Canetti
Born: 1905-07-25 in Ruse, Bulgaria
Gender: male
Field: German-language author (1905 – 1994)
Biography
Elias Canetti 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.