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W.G. Sebald Biography

W.G. Sebald was born in Wertach im Allgau, Germany, in He studied German language and literature in Freiburg, Switzerland, and Manchester. From he taught at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, becoming professor of European literature in , and from to was the first director of the British Center for Literary Translation.

His books have won a number of international awards, including the Los Angeles Times Book Award for fiction, the Berlin Literature Prize, and the Literatur Nord Prize.

In he published his final novel, Austerlitz to critical acclaim. He died in a car accident, in December , aged In March he was posthumously awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction for 'Austerlitz'.

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