W. G. Sebald, German novelist, essayist, and poet (born 1944)

W. G. Sebald

German writer and academic (1944–2001)

Winfried Georg Sebald, known as W. G. Sebald or Max Sebald, was a German writer and academic. At the time of his death at the age of 57, he was according to The New Yorker ”widely recognized for his extraordinary contribution to world literature.”