Elias Canetti

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 in German.

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Born in Rustschuk (now Ruse, Bulgaria) to a Jewish family who had long worked in trade, he spent his child years from 1905 to 1911 in Rustschuk, (Bulgaria) until the family moved to England, because of his father's profession. In 1912 his father died and his mother moved with her children to Vienna in the same year. By this time Canetti already spoke Ladino, Bulgarian, English and some French (he studied the latter two in the one year in England). However, being in Vienna from the age of 7 onwards, the main language he used (taught by his mother) was German. In the next 10 years the family moved first from 1916 to 1921 to Zurich and then until 1924 to Germany where Canetti graduated from high school.

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Elias Canetti related Images and Photos (experimental)

Patrik Elias	Elias Ashmole Antiquary (Ashmolean Museum) and Astrologer	Patrik Elias 2010-11 Action	Elias Boudinot Engraved by John Wesley Paradise
Enormous Oak Tree is Cut Down Illustration from "Kalevala" Compiled and Edited by Elias Lonnrot