W.G. Sebald’s premature death from a heart attack, in December 2001, at 57—months after the publication of his novel Austerlitz propelled him to the height of his literary fame—has left his readers ...
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: ...
In a series of personal reflections on different aspects of the life, work and influence of WG Sebald, poet George Szirtes reflects on Sebald's poetry. Show more Personal reflections on different ...
Unrecounted by WG Sebald & Jan Peter Tripp Penguin £7.99, pp103 In this powerfully haunting gallery of gazes, Sebald seems to be looking out at us from the grave. The result of a long artistic ...
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Before Sebald Was Great

In 1988 and 1990, respectively, Sebald published the poetry collection After Nature and his first prose fiction, Vertigo. Many of the essays in the new volume appeared in the Austrian journal ...
PHILIPPA Comber’s Ariadne’s Thread is the first book-length portrait of literary lion German-English author WG Sebald. Sebald emigrated from his native Germany to England in the 1960s. A lecturer at ...