On the 31st of October Galin NIkiforov received this year’s prize for literature of the International Elias Canetti Society for his novel The Clowns’ House. In collaboration with the International Elias Canetti Society, the Ruse municipality in 2005 endowed the biennial literature prize in the name of Elias Canetti. The literature prize is being awarded for a work which has been published (poetry and fiction) or premiered (drama) during the time since the bestowal of the preceding literature prize. The National Literature Prize “Elias Canetti” is named after the Ruse-born Nobel Prize laureate. It includes a prize money of 5,000 leva and as well as the bestowal of a diploma. More…