I met Martin Ostwald in 1996, shortly after I became friends with his son David, whose son was in the same kindergarten class as mine. By then, Martin had retired from his position as a classics ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. W.G. Sebald’s premature death from a heart attack, in December 2001, at 57—months after the publication of his novel Austerlitz ...

W.G. Sebald, the German-born British author whose career was considered of Nobel caliber at the time of his death in December, was given the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction yesterday.

In 2001, W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz had barely hatched when its expat German author died in an auto accident near Norwich, England. The book came of age in its creator’s absence. As a steady stream of ...

Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald (Modern Library, $13.95). Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction, Sebald's haunting tale of a man's search for self and identity was published in the ...

In this posthumous collection of six essays by Sebald (1944–2001), the last of his major works to be translated into English, the author of Austerlitz, among other works of fiction, nonfiction, and ...

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Bookworm W. G. Sebald Austerlitz (Random House) What Thomas Mann was to the 1940's and Albert Camus to the 1950's probably places the German writer W. G. Sebald in relation to our new century. In this ...