W. G. Sebald, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

W. G. Sebald

German writer and academic

Date of Birth: 18-May-1944

Place of Birth: Wertach, Bavaria, Germany

Date of Death: 14-Dec-2001

Profession: photographer, writer, poet, professor

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About W. G. Sebald

  • Winfried Georg Sebald (18 May 1944 – 14 December 2001), known as W.
  • G.
  • Sebald or (as he preferred) Max Sebald, was a German writer and academic.
  • At the time of his death at the age of 57, he was being cited by 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 2007 Horace Engdahl, former secretary of the Swedish Academy, mentioned Sebald, Ryszard Kapuscinski and Jacques Derrida as three recently deceased writers who would have been worthy laureates.

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