W. G. Sebald

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essayist human literary scholar novelist poet university teacher

W. G. Sebald was a German writer and academic renowned for his genre-blending, melancholic prose that intertwines history, memory, and photography, particularly in works like "Austerlitz" and "The Rings of Saturn."

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instanceOf essayist ⓘ
human ⓘ
literary scholar ⓘ
novelist ⓘ
poet ⓘ
university teacher ⓘ
awardReceived Berlin Literature Prize NERFINISHED ⓘ
Heinrich Böll Prize NERFINISHED ⓘ
Literature Prize of the City of Bremen NERFINISHED ⓘ
National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction NERFINISHED ⓘ
birthName Winfried Georg Sebald NERFINISHED ⓘ
causeOfDeath traffic collision ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship Germany ⓘ
dateOfBirth 1944-05-18 ⓘ
dateOfDeath 2001-12-14 ⓘ
educatedAt University of Freiburg NERFINISHED ⓘ
University of Fribourg NERFINISHED ⓘ
University of Manchester NERFINISHED ⓘ
employer University of East Anglia NERFINISHED ⓘ
ethnicGroup German ⓘ
familyName Sebald NERFINISHED ⓘ
fieldOfWork German literature ⓘ
Holocaust literature ⓘ
comparative literature ⓘ
literary criticism ⓘ
literature ⓘ
memory studies ⓘ
genre autofiction ⓘ
essay ⓘ
novel ⓘ
poetry ⓘ
prose ⓘ
travel literature ⓘ
givenName Georg NERFINISHED ⓘ
Winfried NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasChild Anna Sebald NERFINISHED ⓘ
influenced Ben Lerner NERFINISHED ⓘ
Rachel Cusk NERFINISHED ⓘ
Svetlana Alexievich NERFINISHED ⓘ
Teju Cole NERFINISHED ⓘ
influencedBy Franz Kafka NERFINISHED ⓘ
Jorge Luis Borges NERFINISHED ⓘ
Thomas Bernhard NERFINISHED ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName English ⓘ
German ⓘ
movement documentary fiction ⓘ
memory literature ⓘ
postmodern literature ⓘ
name W. G. Sebald NERFINISHED ⓘ
nativeLanguage German ⓘ
notableIdea hybrid genre between fiction and essay ⓘ
interweaving of text and photography ⓘ
literary exploration of memory and trauma ⓘ
notableWork Austerlitz NERFINISHED ⓘ
On the Natural History of Destruction NERFINISHED ⓘ
The Emigrants NERFINISHED ⓘ
The Rings of Saturn NERFINISHED ⓘ
Vertigo NERFINISHED ⓘ
placeOfBirth Bavaria NERFINISHED ⓘ
Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ
Wertach NERFINISHED ⓘ
placeOfDeath England ⓘ
Norfolk NERFINISHED ⓘ
Norwich NERFINISHED ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ
positionHeld professor of European literature ⓘ
pseudonym Max Sebald NERFINISHED ⓘ
residence Norwich NERFINISHED ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ
sexOrGender male ⓘ
spouse Ute Sebald NERFINISHED ⓘ

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux → hasPublished → W. G. Sebald ⓘ
Bruce Chatwin → influencedBy → W. G. Sebald ⓘ
New Directions → publisherOf → W. G. Sebald ⓘ
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