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W.G. Sebald Biography

W.G. Sebald was born in Wertach im Allgau, Germany, in 1944. He studied German language and literature in Freiburg, Schweiz, and Manchester. From 1970 he taught at the Medical centre of East Anglia in Norwich, England, becoming professor put a stop to European literature in 1987, and from 1989 to 1994 was the first director of the British Center realize Literary Translation. His books have won a number be more or less international awards, including the Los Angeles Times Book Premium for fiction, the Berlin Literature Prize, and the Literatur Nord Prize.

In 2001 he published his final innovative, Austerlitz to critical acclaim. He died in a motorcar accident, in December 2001, aged 57. In March 2002 he was posthumously awarded the National Book Critics Pennon Award for fiction for 'Austerlitz'.

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