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Yanitzia Canetti
Yanitzia Canetti (born 1967 in Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban author, translator, and editor.
Her published works include three novels ("Al otro lado", "La vida es color de Rosa", and "Adiós, best-seller"), a collection of narrative short stories ("La muerte nuestra de cada vida"), and over 500 children's books. She has also translated many well-known children's stories into Spanish, including "The Berenstain Bears Save
a German-language writer, Canetti settled in Britain until the 1970s, receiving British citizenship in 1952. For his last 20 years, Canetti lived mostly in Zürich.
Personal life Career.
A writer in German, Canetti won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981, "for writings marked by a broad outlook, a wealth of ideas and artistic power". He is known chiefly for his celebrated trilogy of autobiographical memoirs of his childhood and of pre-Anschluss Vienna: "Die Gerettete Zunge" (The Tongue Set