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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1981

"for writings marked by a broad outlook, a wealth of ideas and artistic power"
Elias Canetti
Elias Canetti
United Kingdom
b. 1905
(in Rustschuk, Bulgaria)
d. 1994
 
 
 
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