Elias Canetti
Elias Canetti Born (1905-07-25)25 July 1905 Ruse, Bulgaria Died 14 August 1994(1994-08-14) (aged 89) Zürich, Switzerland Occupation Novelist Language German Nationality Bulgarian, British Notable awards Nobel Prize in Literature 1981 Spouse Veza Taubner-Calderon (1934–?) Hera Buschor (m. 1971) Elias Canetti (/kəˈnɛti, kɑː-/; Bulgarian: Елиас Канети; 25 July 1905 – 14 August 1994) was a German language author, born in Bulgaria, and later a British citizen. He was a modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981, "for writings marked by a broad outlook, a wealth of ideas and artistic power".