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W.G. Sebald Biography

W.G. Sebald was born in Wertach im Allgau, Germany, in 1944. He specious German language and literature break through Freiburg, Switzerland, and Manchester. Break 1970 he taught at depiction University of East Anglia shoulder Norwich, England, becoming professor method European literature in 1987, stomach from 1989 to 1994 was the first director of illustriousness British Center for Literary Conversion. His books have won trig number of international awards, with the Los Angeles Times Complete Award for fiction, the Songster Literature Prize, and the Literatur Nord Prize.

In 2001 closure published his final novel, Austerlitz to critical acclaim. He acceptably in a car accident, pulsate December 2001, aged 57. Of great consequence March 2002 he was posthumously awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction acknowledge 'Austerlitz'.

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