Sven Hanuschek Elias Canetti (Elias Canetti: A Biography) Carl Hanser Verlag, March 2005. 800 pp. ISBN 3-446-20584-5 This is the first comprehensive biography of Nobel-prize-winning author Elias Canetti. Sven Hanuschek draws on previously unpublished material and on interviews with those that knew Canetti to produce an impressive study that links Canetti's life to his works and to the upheavals of the twentieth century.