Elias Canetti
| Elias Canetti | |
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| Born |
25 July 1905 Ruse, Bulgaria |
| Died | 14 August 1994 (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 Ruse, 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".
Born to businessman Jacques Canetti and Mathilde née Arditti in Ruse, a city on the Danube in Bulgaria, Canetti was the eldest of three sons. His ancestors were Sephardi Jews. His paternal ancestors settled in Ruse from Ottoman Adrianople. The original family name was Cañete, named after Cañete, Cuenca, a village in Spain.
In Ruse, Canetti's father and grandfather were successful merchants who operated out of a commercial building, which they had built in 1898. Canetti's mother descended from one of the oldest Sephardi families in Bulgaria, Arditti, who were among the founders of the Ruse Jewish colony in the late 18th century. The Ardittis can be traced back to the 14th century, when they were court physicians and astronomers to the Aragonese royal court of Alfonso IV and Pedro IV. Before settling in Ruse, they had lived in Livorno in the 17th century.
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