Obituary: Elias Canetti

From: The Independent - London | Date: August 19, 1994| Author: JAMES KIRKUP | Copyright information

Elias Canetti, writer: born Ruse, Bulgaria 25 July 1905; Nobel Prize for Literature 1981; married twice (one daughter); died Zurich 14 August 1994.

ELIAS CANETTI, winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize for Literature, was unusual among writers in that he was a man of many languages.

When he was a little boy in the Bulgarian town of Ruse on the Danube, on the main route between Sofia and Bucharest, the young servant-girls in his family told him tales of werewolves and vampires in Bulgaria...

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