WG Sebald would surely have hated being likened to Nick Hornby and Helen Fielding, but hear me out. Hornby and Fielding are talented writers who, through a combination of timing, judgment and luck, ...

W.G. Sebald was a literary supernova. Just 13 years after his book “After Nature ” appeared in Germany in 1988, he was dead at 57, the victim of a car crash. In the United States, where he was unknown ...

In four genre-bending works of fiction--"Vertigo," "The Emigrants," "The Rings of Saturn" and "Austerlitz"--published in the last decade, 57-year-old W. G. Sebald has established himself as one of ...

When WG Sebald pays his dues to the ghosts of his literary past he reveals why his own legacy will endure, writes Stuart Kelly Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get ...

On Wednesday evening Thomas Marks saw Andrew Motion, AS Byatt and Ian Bostridge celebrate WG Sebald, the great German author of Vertigo and Austerlitz, who died in a car crash a decade ago. Lingering: ...

Make us a Preferred Source on Google to see more of us when you search. Add Preferred Source With the dire prospect of a U.S. invasion of Iraq, the publication in English of W.G. Sebald's "On the ...

'I don't think one can write from a compromised moral position," remarked the German writer WG Sebald, who has died, aged 57, in a car crash in East Anglia. That scruple put him at odds with much of ...

However, there was more to Sebald’s oeuvre than what he called his “prose fiction,” and over the last two decades, English-language readers have seen the posthumous publication of several nonfiction ...

Campo Santo by WG Sebald Hamish Hamilton £16.99, pp240 One cold December afternoon in 2001, I was travelling home on a slow-moving train from remote west Wales, having spent the day with a close ...

The Saint Malo literary festival provides a special book train for the participants coming to it from Paris. A few years ago after the festival had finished, as I was boarding this train, another ...

W G SEBALD, who has died aged 57, was a scholar and writer whose prose fictions, which dealt with exile and loss, and whose style, discursive, allusive and elliptical, won him widespread critical ...