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Elias canetti biography
Elias Canetti
| Austrian writer and playwright, Nobel Prize in Literature, 1981 Date of Birth: 25.07.1905 Country: Austria |
Biography of Elias Canetti
Elias Canetti, an Austrian writer and playwright of Bulgarian origin, was born into a Sephardic Jewish family in Ruse, Bulgaria.
He was the eldest of three sons in a prosperous merchant family, whose native language was Ladino, a dialect of Spanish spoken by Sephardic Jews. Canetti's paternal grandfather knew seventeen languages, and his parents, Matilda (Arditti) and Jacques Canetti, who received their education in Vienna, spoke only German at home.
Elias also began writing in German, which became his mother tongue.
At the age of 6, Canetti's family moved to Manchester, where he attended school, learned English, and began reading the classics, as his father insisted.
Less than a year later, Canetti's father passed away, and his mother returned with the children to the continent, where she taught Canetti German in orde