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Elias Canetti
Bulgarian-born Swiss and British Jewish modernist novelist
1905 – 1994aged 89
Born to a Sephardic Jewish family in Ruse, Bulgaria, and raised across half of Europe, Canetti wrote in German while belonging fully to none of the countries he lived in. His nonfiction study Crowds and Power dissected how mobs form and how power sustains itself through them, work the Nobel committee cited in 1981 for its "broad outlook" and "artistic power."