Elias Canetti

Elias Canetti (German: Elias Canetti, July 25, 1905 - August 14, 1994) was a Bulgarian-born Sephardic Jewish novelist, critic, sociologist and playwright. He was the winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize for Literature. He writes in German. Canetti's famous works include the autobiographical trilogy: Die Gerettete Zunge (The Tongue of Salvation), Die Fackel im Ohr (The Torch in the Ear), Das Augenspiel (The Game of the Eyes), the modernist novel Auto-da-Fé (Auto-da-Fé) and the sociological work Masse und Macht (Mass and Power).