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.
