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6 unusual facts about Elias Canetti


Cañete, Cuenca

It is the birthplace of Álvaro de Luna and the origin of Sephardi Jew family Canetti (the most famous member of which is Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Elias Canetti) —in fact, Canetti is a bastardisation of Cañete—.

Comologno

It soon became a haven for artists and well-known anti-fascists, including Ignazio Silone, Ernesto Rossi, Kurt Tucholsky, Hans Marchwitza, Ernesto Bonaiuti, Max Terpis, Elias Canetti, Wladimir Vogel and Jean-Paul Samson.

Elisabeth Reichart

In 1993, she received the Austrian National Prize for the Promotion of Literature and in 1995, she was awarded the prestigious Elias Canetti Grant, named for Nobel Prize winner Elias Canetti.

Galin Nikiforov

A month later his latest novel The House of Clowns won the Elias Canetti Award.

Letters to Felice

Bulgarian novelist Elias Canetti wrote about the correspondence in Kafka's Other Trial: The Letters to Felice.

Matthias Grünewald

Elias Canetti wrote his novel Auto-da-Fé surrounded by reproductions of the Isenheim altarpiece stuck to the wall.


Café Museum

Regular guests of the Café in the early twentieth century included: Peter Altenberg, Alban Berg, Hermann Broch, Elias Canetti, Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, Karl Kraus, Franz Lehár, Robert Musil, Leo Perutz, Joseph Roth, Roda Roda, Egon Schiele, Georg Trakl, Otto Wagner and Franz Werfel.

David Rieff

He finally ended up at Princeton University, where he graduated with an A.B. in 1978, and was a Senior Editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux from 1978 to 1989, working with such authors as Joseph Brodsky, Elias Canetti, Carlos Fuentes, Alberto Moravia, Les Murray, Philip Roth, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Marguerite Yourcenar.

Mary Fitzpayne

Their house became renowned for the extraordinary collection of art that was hung on the walls, and their circle of friends which included writers such as Elias Canetti, Richard Grunberger and Erich Fried.

Ruth Rix

The niece of Austrian writer Ilse Aichinger, Rix grew up in the company of artists and intellectuals such as Anna Mahler and Elias Canetti.

Theodor Kramer

He was in close contact with other members of the club like Elias Canetti, Erich Fried and Hilde Spiel.

Verena Hoehne

The guests of her interviews and documentaries included Max Frisch, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Elias Canetti, Maria Becker, Ernst Schröder (actor), Karl Paryla, Franz Hohler, Wolf Biermann and Emil Steinberger.


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