W G Sebald (Author) W. G. Sebald was born in Wertach im Allg¿ in the Bavarian Alps in 1944.
He studied German language and literature in Freiburg Switzerland and Manchester. In 1966 he
took up a position as an assistant lecturer at the University of Manchester settling
permanently in England in 1970. He was professor of Modern German Literature at the University
of East Anglia and is the author of The Emigrants which won the Berlin Literature Prize the
Literatur Nord Prize and the Johannes Bobrowski Medal The Rings of Saturn and Austerlitz . W.
G. Sebald died in 2001. Michael Hulse and Simon Rae (Translators) Michael Hulse teaches poetry
at Warwick University and regularly does reading tours in the UK the US Canada Australia
New Zealand and India. He is based in Warwick. Simon Rae is a playwright novelist and
broadcaster (he presented Radio 4's 'Poetry Please' for several years). He lives in Banbury
Oxfordshire. Both Michael Hulse and Simon Rae are published poets and winners of the National
Poetry Competition.
