Elias Canetti - Honours and Awards

Honours and Awards

  • Prix International (France, 1949)
  • Grand Austrian State Prize for Literature (1967)
  • Literature Award of the Bavarian Academy of the Fine Arts (1969)
  • Austrian Decoration for Science and Art (1972)
  • Georg Büchner Prize (German Academy for Language and Literature, 1972)
  • German recording prize, for reading "Ohrenzeuge" (Deutscher Schallplattenpreis) (1975)
  • Nelly Sachs Prize (1975)
  • Gottfried-Keller-Preis (1977)
  • Pour le Mérite (1979)
  • Johann-Peter-Hebel-Preis (Baden-Württemberg, 1980)
  • Nobel Prize in Literature (1981)
  • Franz Kafka Prize (1981)
  • Grand Merit Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1983)
  • In 1975, Canetti was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Manchester and another from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, in 1976.
  • Canetti Peak on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica is named after him.

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