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Elias Canetti

1905 - 1994

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Elias Canetti (Bulgarian: Елиас Канети; 25 July 1905 – 14 August 1994; ; German pronunciation: [eˈliːas kaˈnɛti]) was a German-language writer, known as a modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and nonfiction writer. Born in Ruse, Bulgaria, to a Sephardic Jewish family, he later lived in England, Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. He won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Literature, "for writings marked by a broad outlook, a wealth of ideas and artistic power". He is noted for his nonfiction book Crowds and Power, among other works. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Elias Canetti is the 164th most popular writer (down from 148th in 2019), the 5th most popular biography from Bulgaria (down from 4th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Bulgarian Writer.

Elias Canetti was a Nobel Prize-winning author and novelist. He is most famous for his novels "Crowds and Power" and "Auto-da-Fé."

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Among writers, Elias Canetti ranks 164 out of 7,302. Before him are Eugène Ionesco, Ivan Turgenev, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Tomas Tranströmer, Guillaume Apollinaire, and Jean Racine. After him are Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Novalis, Heinrich Böll, Robert Louis Stevenson, Walter Scott, and Rudyard Kipling.

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Among people born in 1905, Elias Canetti ranks 9. Before him are Howard Hughes, Simo Häyhä, Nevill Francis Mott, Albert Speer, Dag Hammarskjöld, and Viktor Frankl. After him are Christian Dior, Henry Fonda, Greta Garbo, Carl David Anderson, Fred Trump, and Faustina Kowalska. Among people deceased in 1994, Elias Canetti ranks 9. Before him are Richard Nixon, Karl Popper, Charles Bukowski, Erich Honecker, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and Eugène Ionesco. After him are Erik Erikson, Linus Pauling, Burt Lancaster, Raul Julia, Dorothy Hodgkin, and Jeffrey Dahmer.

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In Bulgaria

Among people born in Bulgaria, Elias Canetti ranks 5 out of 415. Before him are Aesop (-620), Flavius Aetius (390), Belisarius (505), and Ahmed III (1673). After him are Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (1937), Georgi Dimitrov (1882), Maximinus Thrax (173), Phocas (547), Todor Zhivkov (1911), Simeon I of Bulgaria (864), and Boris III of Bulgaria (1894).

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Among WRITERS In Bulgaria

Among writers born in Bulgaria, Elias Canetti ranks 2. Before him are Aesop (-620). After him are Saint Naum (830), Hristo Botev (1848), Ivan Vazov (1850), Georgi Markov (1929), Chernorizets Hrabar (890), Sabahattin Ali (1907), Gregory Tsamblak (1365), Constantine of Preslav (900), Georgi Sava Rakovski (1821), and Elin Pelin (1877).

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