艾利亚斯·卡奈蒂是在保加利亚出生,在英国、瑞士,德国和奥地利长大,后加入英国国籍,但一直用德语写作的德语作家。长期的流亡生涯使他一直默默无闻,直到六、七十年代他才渐渐得到人们的承认。到1981年卡奈蒂终于由于他的作品具有“宽广的视野,丰富的思想和艺术力量”获得了这一年度的诺贝尔文学 Elias Canetti is a German-speaking writer who was born in Bulgaria and grew up in England, Switzerland, Germany and Austria, joining the British nationality but has been writing in German. He had been obscured by prolonged exile, until he was gradually recognized by the people in the 1960s and 1970s. By the year 2001, Kannetti finally won the Nobel Prize for this year because of his work’s “broad vision, rich thought and artistic power”