W. G. Sebald

W. G. Sebald was born in 1944 in Wertach, in the Allgäu, and grew up in Sonthofen; his father, an officer, did not return from captivity until 1947. After studying German and English literature at Freiburg im Breisgau and at Fribourg, Switzerland, he taught in Manchester from 1966, then from 1970 at the University of East Anglia, where he founded the British Centre for Literary Translation in 1989. He wrote in German and worked with his English translator on the versions of his books. He died at the wheel, near Norwich, in 2001.

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