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Elias Canetti, c1960. By Astrid Brandt. AR 2299/F 1957. LBI.
The 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature was divided equally between Agnon "for his profoundly characteristic narrative art with motifs from the life of the Jewish people" and Nelly Sachs.
Sonia Wachstein writes about her life, including her friendship with Elias Canetti. [Part of the LBI Memoir Collection.]
Elias Canetti (Besso Reel 166). Audio from Buenos Días América program (L.A. Division of the Voice of America) on March 25, 1971, discussing Canetti. [Collection is digitized and available online.]
The 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Gordimer "who through her magnificent epic writing has - in the words of Alfred Nobel - been of very great benefit to humanity."
The 1910 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Heyse "as a tribute to the consummate artistry, permeated with idealism, which he has demonstrated during his long productive career as a lyric poet, dramatist, novelist and writer of world-renowned short stories."
The 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Jelinek "for her musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power."
The 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature was divided equally between Sachs "for her outstanding lyrical and dramatic writing, which interprets Israel's destiny with touching strength" and Shmuel Yosef Agnon.
The 1978 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Singer "for his impassioned narrative art which, with roots in a Polish-Jewish cultural tradition, brings universal human conditions to life."