Elias Canetti was a Nobel Prize-winning author and playwright from Bulgaria who wrote in German. He is best known for his novel Auto-da-Fe, which won him the 1981 Nobel Prize in Literature. Camilo Jose Cela was a Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright who won the 1989 Nobel Prize in Literature. Hermann Hesse was a German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter who won the 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature. William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and dramatist who won the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature.