biography
| name: |
Sebald, W(infried) G(eorg)
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pronunciation:
[zaybalt]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1944–2001)
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in Wertach im Allgäu, Germany. He studied German literature and language in Freiburg, Switzerland, and in Manchester. An original and innovative writer, his major themes are journeys and the lives of writers who are also travellers, with each narrative haunted by visions of destruction. The Emigrants (1996), his first novel to appear in English, is the evocation of an exiled painter whose parents perished in the Nazi death camps. The Rings of Saturn (1998) is the account of a walking trip through Suffolk, while Vertigo (1999) comprises four narratives of travels from England to Vienna and Italy. His final novel, Austerlitz (2001), won The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. He was professor of European Literature at the University of East Anglia. |
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