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Elias Canetti

1905 – 1994 · aged 89

Bulgarian-born Swiss and British Jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer (1905–1994)

Born
25 Jul 1905 · Ruse
Died
14 Aug 1994 · Zurich
Part ofBulgaria620 BCE – todayUnited Kingdom43 CE – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 102 years
  1. 25 Jul 1905BornBorn in Ruse
  2. 1966AwardCity of Vienna Literature Prize
  3. 1967AwardGrand Austrian State Prize for Literature
  4. 1969AwardLiterature Award of the Bavarian Academy of the Fine Arts
  5. 1972AwardAustrian Decoration for Science and Art
  6. 1972AwardGeorg Büchner Prize
  7. 1975AwardFranz Nabl Prize
  8. 1975AwardNelly Sachs Prize
  9. 1977AwardGottfried-Keller-Preis
  10. 1979AwardPour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order
  11. 1980AwardJohann-Peter-Hebel-Preis
  12. 1981AwardFranz Kafka Prize
  13. 1981AwardNobel Prize in Literature
  14. 14 Aug 1994DiedDied in Zurich

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1905 – 1994).

  1. 1914 – 1918World War I
  2. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  3. 1917Balfour Declaration
  4. 1917February Revolution
  5. 1917October Revolution
  6. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  7. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  8. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  9. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  10. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  11. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  12. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  13. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  14. 1938Munich Agreement
  15. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  16. 1939 – 1945World War II
  17. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  18. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  19. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  20. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  21. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  22. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  23. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  24. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  25. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  26. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  27. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  29. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  30. 1956Suez Crisis
  31. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  32. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  33. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  34. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  35. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  36. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  37. 1968Prague Spring
  38. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  39. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  40. 19741974 FIFA World Cup

Biography

Elias Canetti (German: [eˈliːas kaˈnɛti]; 25 July 1905 – 14 August 1994) 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.

Text from the Wikipedia article Elias Canetti, CC BY-SA 4.0

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