Elias Canetti (July 25, 1905 – August 13, 1994). Bulgarian-born German-speaking novelist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981.

Born in Rustschuk (now Ruse) to Jewish family, a port on the Danube River in Bulgaria, he was fluent in Ladino, Bulgarian, and English as well as German. He earned a degree in Chemistry from the University of Vienna in 1929, but never taught. He emigrated to England shortly before World War II, and kept a home in London. He died in Zürich.

He was a lover of Iris Murdoch.

Works

• Die Hochzeit (The Wedding, play, 1932)
• Komoedie der Eitelkeit 1934 (The Comedy of Vanity)
• Die Blendung 1935 (Auto-da-Fé, novel, tr.1946)
• Die Befristeten 1956 (? premiere of the play in Oxford) (Their Days are Numbered)
• Masse und Macht 1960 (Crowds and Power, study, tr. 1962, published in Hamburg)
• Aufzeichnungen 1942-48 1965(Sketches)
• Die Stimmen von Marrakesch 1968 published by Hanser in Munich (The Voices of Marrakesh, travelogue, tr. 1978)
• Der andere Prozess 1969 Kafkas Briefe an Felice (Kafka's Other Trial, tr. 1974).
• Hitler nach Speer (Essay)
• Die Provinz des Menschen Aufzeichnungen 1942-1972 (The Human Province, tr. 1978)
• Der Ohrenzeuge. Fuenfzig Charaktere 1974 (Ear Witness: Fifty Characters, tr. 1979).
• Das Gewissen der Worte 1975. Essays (The Conscience of Words)
• Die Gerettete Zunge 1977 (The Tongue Set Free, memoir, tr. 1979)
• Die Fackel ihm Ohr 1980 Lebensgeschichte 1921-1931 (The Torch in My Ear, memoir, tr. 1982)
• Das Augenspiel 1985 Lebensgeschichte 1931-1937 (The Play of the Eyes, memoir, tr. 1990)
• Das Geheimherz der Uhr: Aufzeichnungen 1987 (The Secret Heart of the Clock, tr. 1989)
• Die Fliegenpein (The Agony of Flies, 1992)
• Nachträge aus Hampstead (Notes from Hampstead, 1994)