Original: Elias Canetti ( 25 July 1905 , Rousse , Bulgaria - 14 August 1994 , Zurich , Switzerland ) was a Bulgarian-born novelist and non-fiction writer of Sephardi Jewish ancestry who wrote in German and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981 .
Simplified: Elias Canetti ( born July 25 , 1905 -- died August 14 , 1994 ) was an Bulgarian-Swiss Jewish author who wrote Crowds and Power .