W. G. Sebald

Winfried Georg Sebald was born in 1944 in Wertach im Allgau, a small town in the Bavarian Alps, and grew up in postwar Germany amid a national silence about the Nazi era that would profoundly shape his literary vision. He studied German literature in Freiburg and French-speaking Switzerland before moving to England in 1966, eventually settling at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, where he taught European literature for over three decades. His major prose works, including The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn, Vertigo, and Austerlitz, were all published in the final decade of his life. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by Austerlitz.