# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:41:11.993Z

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name: "Elias Canetti"
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description: "A modernist who spent decades mapping the physics of mobs — how they form, when they break, what they want from the bodies inside them. The Nobel came in 1981 for a career built in the margins: novels, memoirs, and one strange treatise on mass behavior that no discipline could quite claim."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in 1905 in Ruse, Bulgaria, to a Sephardic Jewish family, Canetti wrote in German across a life scattered through England, Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. He worked as a novelist, playwright, and memoirist, but his signature effort was the nonfiction book "Crowds and Power," a study of collective behavior that defied easy categorization. The Nobel committee cited "writings marked by a broad outlook, a wealth of ideas and artistic power" when they gave him the literature prize in 1981. He died in 1994, thirteen years after the recognition arrived.