CANETTI, ELIAS
Canetti, Elias: translation
(1905-94)
Austrian novelist, essayist and dramatist. He was born in Ruse in Bulgaria. He was a freelance writer and translator and in 1938 he went to London, where he settled. His works include Auto da Fe, Crowds and Power, The Tongue Set Free, The Torch in My Ear and The Play of the Eyes. In 1981 he received the Nobel Prize for Literature.