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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

However, there was more to Sebald’s oeuvre than what he called his “prose fiction,” and over the last two decades, English-language readers have seen the posthumous publication of several nonfiction ...