W.G. Sebald

Winfried Georg Sebald (1944–2001) was a German author and academic born in Wertach, Bavaria. He is renowned for his innovative prose fiction blending elements of memoir, fiction, history, and biography, with notable works including Vertigo, The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn, and Austerlitz, the latter winning the National Book Critics Circle Award. Sebald taught European literature at the University of East Anglia, where he founded the British Centre for Literary Translation.