ELIAS CANETTI, 89
WON NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
Author: Associated Press
Date: Friday, August 19, 1994
Page: 37
Section: OBITUARY
ZURICH -- Elias Canetti, the reclusive writer who won the 1981 Nobel Prize
in literature, died Sunday. He was 89.
Mr. Canetti, a Bulgarian-born British citizen who wrote in German, was
buried Wednesday in Zurich beside Irish author James Joyce. He went into
seclusion after he won the prize.
Mr. Canetti began writing dramas and novels in the early 1930s, but
developed a wide following among German readers only in 1960 with the
publication of the first volume of his major work, "Masse und Macht" (Crowds
and Power).
A nightmarish novel, "Die Blendung" (Auto da Fe), which he wrote in the
early 1930s, was not published in Vienna until 1963. But his drama, "Die
Hochzeit" (The Wedding), was published in 1932, and two years later he
completed his "Komodie der Eitelkeit" (Comedy of Vanity).
He was born on July 25, 1905, in Rustchuk, Bulgaria. In 1911, he moved
with his parents to Manchester, England. When his father died two years later,
he moved to Vienna, where he attended school before continuing his education
in Zurich and Frankfurt.
Facing the Nazi takeover of Austria, Mr. Canetti, of Spanish-Jewish
descent, left Austria in 1938 and went to Paris and then London, where he
worked as free-lance writer and was granted a British passport.
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