W. G. Sebald

Novelist, Author

1944 – 2001

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Who was W. G. Sebald?

W. G. "Max" Sebald was a German writer and academic. At the time of his death at the age of 57, he was being cited by many literary critics as one of the greatest living authors and had been tipped as a possible future winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. In a 2007 interview, Horace Engdahl, former secretary of the Swedish Academy, mentioned Sebald, Ryszard Kapuściński and Jacques Derrida as three recently deceased writers who would have been worthy laureates.

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Born
May 18, 1944
Wertach
Also known as
  • W.G. Sebald
Nationality
  • Germany
Profession
Education
  • University of Fribourg
Died
Dec 14, 2001
Norfolk

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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