Veza Canetti

Venetiana "Veza" Taubner-Calderon Canetti (Vienna, 1897 – London, 1963) was an Austrian poet, playwright, and short story writer.[1]

Biography

Venetiana "Veza" Taubner-Calderon was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1897 to a Sephardi mother and Jewish-Hungarian father. After World War I, she initially worked as an English teacher. At the age of 27 she met Elias Canetti, whom she would later marry in February 1934.

During the 1930s, she wrote short stories based on everyday life for the Viennese paper Arbeiter-Zeitung.[2] Apart from this, few of her longer works were published. It was only many years after her death that her first novel, Yellow Street (1990), was published. Her novels were often political and partly autobiographical. In particular, The Tortoises draws from her time in England.

Works

  • The Tortoises (Die Schildkröten)[3]
  • Yellow Street (Die gelbe Straße)[4]
  • The Ogre (Der Oger)[5]
  • Patience Brings Roses (Geduid bringt Rosen)[5]

References

  1. ↑ Veza Canetti, Other Press.
  2. ↑ Preece, J. (2007), The Rediscovered Writings of Veza Canetti: Out of the Shadows of a Husband. Camden House: USA.
  3. ↑ The Tortoises, Amazon.com.
  4. ↑ Yellow Street, Amazon.com.
  5. 1 2 Preece, J. (2007), The Rediscovered Writings of Veza Canetti: Out of the Shadows of a Husband. Camden House: USA.
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