The selection and nomination committee for the "Elias Canetti" National Literary Award 2023 is ready with the shortlist of nominees. They are: • KOSTADIN KOSTADINOV, The Butterfly Hunter • IVAN STANKOV, Late Death • BURHAN KERIM, The Lavender Boy • NIKOLAI TERZIYSKY, Stars Under the Eyelids • ELENA ALEXIEVA, Vоlcanо • JOANNA ELMI, Made of More...
1 - 12 October Canetti House, Canetti Blvd. 12 "Slavyanski" Profit yielding building The 16th edition of the International Literary Festival of Ruse, organized by the International Elias Canetti Society , starts on the Day of Music, October 1st. This year it is under the motto "The sleep of reason...". "The Sleep of Reason gives More...
The festival is realized with the financial support of the "Culture" program at Ruse Municipality. With the kind support of our partners THE SLEEP OF REASON... We live in an age of electronic recreation of the world and of human life and of the More...
Opening on 29.06.2023 at 17.00 in Canetti House, in blvd. 12 "Slavyanski" The exhibition will be presented in Ruse invited by the International "Elias Canetti" Society. Its curator is Malvina Talik - research fellow at the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe. She is coming to Ruse to open it in person. Malvina More...
1st June, Thursday 19.00 p.m. The Profit Yealding Building, "Europe'' On the first day of June, the musicians from the project END OF AUTUMN will visit Ruse. It is organized by the association "The Purple Swan", Vienna, and the organizers of the event are State Opera - Ruse and International "Elias Canetti" Society. The concert More...
Sharing Future - Artist in residence scholarship 2023 ✨The Artist in Residence grant „Sharing Future “of the International Elias Canetti Society, sponsored by the Danube Rectors’ Conference, is already in its FIFTH round this year. ✨ 🟢We received many quality applications from artists and artist duos, so the selection More...
The International Elias Canetti Society was founded in 1992 in Ruse/Bulgaria, the birthplace of Elias Canetti. The central goals of the Society include a dedication to researching Canetti’s work, promoting the European integration process and participating in rebuilding civil societal structures in post-communist Bulgaria. The Society’s work encompasses essentially four fields: Cultural mediation, cultural dialogue, More...
18 May, Thursday, Canetti House, Ruse 18.00 p.m. The State Opera House, the Art Gallery, the Elias Canetti House and the State Archives - Ruse united to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the rescue of the Bulgarian Jews. Everything will happen in the Canetti House, where two exhibitions are on display. One is of Bulgarian More...
The Elias Canetti International Society Scholarship holder for 2021. Thomas Perle won the Retzhofer Prize for Playwriting for his play Carpathian Spots. It is a family story set against the backdrop of historical and political changes in the mountainous Carpathian Mountains, northern Romania, and the familiar sounds of an almost forgotten language, zipster. It will More...
29 - 30 APRIL, 2023 The meeting is organized by the Drama Theatre "Sava Ognyanov" - Ruse in cooperation with the International Elias Canetti Society, the Arche Theatre and the "Yura Zeufer Gesellschaft". With the kind support of the Austrian Embassy in Sofia The meeting focuses on the life and work of the Austrian playwright More...
