A literature evening will mark the centennial of Nobel Prize laureate Elias Canetti in his birth town of Rousse on Tuesday.

Bulgaria's Danube town formerly known as Roustchouk will also disclose the winner of its yearly "Elias Canetti" literature award at a special ceremony in the course of the evening.

Michael Krueger, chairman of German Hanser Publishing House that owns the rights to all Canetti works, and poet Dimitar Dinev will take part in the celebrations of what would have been Canetti's hundredth birthday.

Austria's embassy in Bulgaria and the German Robert Bosch Foundation are co-organizers of the initiative.

"All that I experienced afterwards had already been in Roustchouk" wrote Canetti in his book "Tongue Set Free."

Elias Canetti was born in Ruse, in a Sephardic Jewish family. When he was six, his family moved to Manchester, England. After the sudden death of his father, his mother took the family to Vienna, where he learned German.

A novelist, essayist, sociologist, and playwright Canetti was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1981. His best-known work is Crowds and Power (1960), an inspired study of mass movements, death, and anarchic societies that combined history, folklore, myth, and literature. Canetti got inspiration for the book by the burning of the Palace on Justice in Vienna in 1927.

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