115 years ago, on July 25th, Elias Canetti was born in Ruse (then Ruschuk). 76 years later, in 1981, he received the Nobel Prize for Literature for "works marked by a broad perspective, a wealth of ideas and artistic power." Bulgaria then missed the event. The name of the writer is little known to a More...
Sara Renar. She won in competition with 44 other candidates from Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia. Sara is a graduate architect and she is also a Croatian performing and recording musician. A calling she has answered successfully for years and her project idea, titled "Soundtrack Ruse 2020" was selected and won her the Scholarship. The More...
Dear applicants, dear friends, We would like to sincerely thank you for your interest and applications for the Residence scholarship 2020 – Sharing Future! The decision on the winner of the scholarship was made by a four-member board of trustees of the Elias Canetti Society and the Danube Rectors‘ Conference. The exact composition of the Board More...
The first chords of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony will be played on May 9th, at 6 pm, on the square in front of the Ruse Opera. The International "Elias Canetti" Society and State Opera greet the public with a recording that in a way carries the symbolism of the European idea. In order to comply with More...
The number of this year's candidates is an achievement in itself: Last year, when the first Residence Scholarship 2019 was won by artist and visual artist Zora Kreuzer, there were less than ten candidates. This year, an international jury will choose one from all forty-five candidates from four continents and their project ideas. Most of More...
The Sofia Library will celebrate the 10th of March with the exhibition of the Elias Canetti Society. This is the date on which we remember the rescue of nearly 50,000 Bulgarian Jews from deportation to the concentration camps of Nazi Germany. On the same day, we commemorate the victims of the Holocaust. "The Global More...
The Sofia Library will celebrate the 10th of March with the exhibition of the Elias Canetti Society. This is the date on which we remember the rescue of nearly 50,000 Bulgarian Jews from deportation to the concentration camps of Nazi Germany. On the same day, we commemorate the victims of the Holocaust. "The Global dimension" More...
Watch the full interview at the following link: https://www.bnt.bg/bg/a/mezhdunarodno-druzhestvo-elias-kaneti-i-izdatelstvo-elias-kaneti
THOMAS GEBAUER / ILIJA TROJANOW HELP? HELP! Roads of the global crisis. Monetary aid, politics, solidarity. Can the aid be more than temporary support? Who do the donations help - the beneficiary or the donor? The message of this book is against the profits and hypocrisy of a society that calms itself through "caring for More...
9th February, Sunday, 13h. International Elias Canetti Society at 'The Library' on BNT1 The new year for the Society, the publishing house, as well as for the Austrian Library, all named after the Nobel laureate, will be the topic of conversation in the BNT1 series ‘The Library’. Thomas Gebauer and Ilija Trojanow are the authors More...
