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{{Short description|German writer and academic (1944–2001)}}
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{{Infobox writer 
| name = W. G. Sebald
| image = W. G. Sebald (writer, born 1944).jpg
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| birth_name = Winfried Georg Sebald
| birth_date = {{birth date|1944|5|18|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Wertach]], [[Bavaria]], [[Nazi Germany]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|2001|12|14|1944|5|18|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Norfolk]], England
| occupation = Writer, academic
| language = German
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| education = {{Nowrap|[[University of Freiburg]] [[University of Fribourg]] [[University of East Anglia]] (PhD) [[University of Hamburg]]}}
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| notable_works = ''[[Vertigo (Sebald novel)|Vertigo]]'' ''[[The Emigrants (Sebald novel)|The Emigrants]]'' ''[[The Rings of Saturn]]'' ''[[Austerlitz (novel)|Austerlitz]]''
| website =
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'''Winfried Georg Sebald'''<ref>In a number of interviews, Sebald claimed that his third given name was "Maximilian" – this has, however, turned out not to be the case; see Uwe Schütte, ''W.G. Sebald. Leben und literarisches Werk.'' Berlin/Boston, MA: de Gruyter, 2020, p. 8.</ref> (18 May 1944 – 14 December 2001), known as '''W. G. Sebald''' or (as he preferred) '''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."<ref name="newyorker"/>

==Life==
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Sebald was born in [[Wertach]], [[Bavaria]] on 18 May 1944. He was the second of the three children of Rosa and Georg Sebald, and their only son. Though he was born in Wertach, he lived and spent much of his youth, roughly between the ages of four and nineteen, in the nearby town of [[Sonthofen]].<ref>[http://fuehrer.oberstdorf-online.de/personen/sebald_winfried_g.htm W.G. Sebald, Schriftsteller und Schüler am Gymnasium Oberstdorf] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090203192119/http://fuehrer.oberstdorf-online.de/personen/sebald_winfried_g.htm |date=3 February 2009 }} {{in lang|de}}</ref> His father had joined the [[Reichswehr]] in 1929 during the [[Weimar Republic|Weimar era]] and served in the [[Wehrmacht]] under the [[Nazis]], participating in the [[Invasion of Poland]] in 1939.<ref>{{Cite web |title=W. G. Sebald |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/wg-sebald |access-date=2026-02-11 |website=The Poetry Foundation}}</ref> His father remained a detached figure, as he was held as a [[prisoner of war]] until 1947. Sebald's maternal grandfather, the small-town police officer Josef Egelhofer (1872–1956), was the most important male presence during the boy's early years.<ref name=WGSlautTD>{{cite web |title=Sebald, W. G. (Max, eigentlich Winfried Georg Maximilian) |url=https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/gnd119310007.html#ndbcontent |author=Thomas Diecks |work=[[Neue Deutsche Biographie]] |volume=24 |year=2010 |pages=106–107 |publisher=Historische Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (HiKo), München |accessdate=19 February 2022}}</ref>

While at school in Oberstdorf, Sebald was shown images of [[the Holocaust]] and recalled that no one knew how to explain what they had just seen. He later explored the Holocaust and European [[modernity]], especially its modes of [[Industrial warfare|warfare]] and [[persecution]], as central themes in his fiction.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Carrigan Jr. |first=Henry L. |title=W. G. Sebald |publisher=Critical Survey of Long Fiction |year=2010 |edition=4th}}</ref>

Sebald studied German and English literature first at the [[University of Freiburg]] and then at the [[University of Fribourg]] in Switzerland, where he received a degree in 1965.<ref>Eric Homberger, [https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/dec/17/guardianobituaries.books1 "WG Sebald,"] ''The Guardian'', 17 December 2001, accessed 9 October 2010.</ref> He was a [[Lecturer|lector]] at the [[University of Manchester]] from 1966 to 1969. He returned to [[St. Gallen]] in Switzerland for a year, hoping to work as a teacher, but could not settle. Sebald married his Austrian-born wife, Ute, in 1967.

In 1970 he became a lecturer at the [[University of East Anglia]] (UEA). There, he completed his PhD in 1973 with a dissertation entitled ''The Revival of Myth: A Study of Alfred Döblin's Novels''.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Martin |first=James R. |date=2013 |title=On Misunderstanding W.G. Sebald |journal=Cambridge Literary Review |volume=IV |issue=7 |pages=123–38 |url=http://www.cambridgeliteraryreview.org/wp-content/uploads/MartinCLR7.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160311164035/http://www.cambridgeliteraryreview.org/wp-content/uploads/MartinCLR7.pdf |archive-date=11 March 2016 |access-date=4 March 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite thesis |last= Sebald |first= W. G. |title= The Revival of myth: a study of Alfred Döblin's novels |year=1973 |type=Ph.D |website=[[British Library]] EThOS |url=http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=45&uin=uk.bl.ethos.471944 |access-date=4 March 2016}}</ref> Sebald acquired [[habilitation]] from the [[University of Hamburg]] in 1986.<ref>[http://dev.cdh.ucla.edu/~newmedia/barbara/html/biography.htm.]{{dead link|date=December 2017|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}</ref>

In 1987, he was appointed to a chair of [[European literature]] at UEA. In 1989 he became the founding director of the [[British Centre for Literary Translation]]. He lived at [[Wymondham]] and [[Poringland]] in Norfolk County while serving at UEA.

==Final year==
[[File:W.G._Sebald_to_Andreas_Dorschel_(2001).jpg|thumb|200px|W.G. Sebald to Andreas Dorschel, June 2001, page 1]]

The 2001 publication of ''[[Austerlitz (novel)|Austerlitz]]'' (both in German and English) would bring Sebald worldwide recognition:<ref>Uwe Schütte, 'Rezeption | Anglo-amerikanischer Raum'. In: Claudia Öhlschläger, Michael Niehaus (eds.), ''W.G. Sebald-Handbuch: Leben – Werk – Wirkung.'' Stuttgart: Metzler, 2017, pp. 305–309, pp. 305 and 306.</ref> "''Austerlitz'' was received enthusiastically on an international scale; literary critics celebrated it frenetically; the book established Sebald as a modern classic."<ref>Christian Hein, 'Rezeption | Deutschsprachiger Raum'. In: Claudia Öhlschläger, Michael Niehaus (eds.), ''W.G. Sebald-Handbuch: Leben – Werk – Wirkung.'' Stuttgart: Metzler, 2017, pp. 300–305, p. 300: "''Austerlitz'' wurde international begeistert rezipiert, von der Literaturkritik frenetisch gefeiert und verlieh Sebald den Status eines modernen Klassikers."</ref> He was tipped as a possible future winner of the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]].<ref name="newyorker">{{cite magazine |last=O'Connell |first=Mark |title=Why You Should Read W. G. Sebald |date=14 December 2011 |magazine=The New Yorker |url=https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/why-you-should-read-w-g-sebald}}</ref><ref name="auto"/><ref>In 2007 [[Horace Engdahl]], former secretary of the [[Swedish Academy]], mentioned Sebald, [[Ryszard Kapuściński]] and [[Jacques Derrida]] as three recently deceased writers who would have been worthy laureates. {{Cite web|url=http://www.vi-tidningen.se/templates/ArticlePage.aspx?id=9012|title=Tidningen Vi – STÃNDIGT DENNA HORACE!|accessdate=23 November 2021}}</ref> By then he was in high demand by literary institutions and radio programmes throughout Western Europe.<ref>Philippa Comber, 'Autorbiographie'. In: Claudia Öhlschläger, Michael Niehaus (eds.), ''W.G. Sebald-Handbuch: Leben – Werk – Wirkung.'' Stuttgart: Metzler, 2017, pp. 5–9, p. 9.</ref> Newspapers, magazines and journals from Germany, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, Britain and the U.S. urged him for interviews.<ref>Uwe Schütte, ''W.G. Sebald. Einführung in Leben und Werk.'' Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2011, p. 33.</ref> "Condemned to unrest I am, I am afraid", he wrote to [[Andreas Dorschel]] in June 2001, returning from one trip and setting out for the next.

For a considerable time, Sebald had been aware of a congenital cardiac insufficiency.<ref>Uwe Schütte, ''Figurationen. Zum lyrischen Werk von W.G. Sebald.'' Eggingen: Isele, 2021, p. 49.</ref> To a visitor from the US, he described himself in August 2001 as "someone who knows he has to leave before too long".<ref>Lynne Sharon Schwartz (ed.), ''The Emergence of Memory: Conversations with W.G. Sebald'', New York, NY/London/Melbourne/Toronto 2007, p. 162.</ref>

Sebald died while driving near [[Norwich]] in December 2001.<ref>Vanessa Thorpe, 'Cult novelist killed in car accident', ''The Observer'', 16 December 2001.</ref> The event threw the literary public into a state of shock.<ref>Scott Denham, 'Foreword: The Sebald Phenomenon', in: Scott Denham, Mark McCulloh (eds.), ''W.G. Sebald: History – Memory – Trauma'', Berlin/New York, NY: de Gruyter 2006, pp. 1–6, p. 2: ”Sebald's premature death in December, 2001, shocked the literary world in Germany as well as in his home, Britain, and in the U.S.”</ref> Sebald had been driving with his daughter Anna, who survived the crash.<ref name="auto">{{cite news|last=Gussow|first=Mel|title=W. G. Sebald, Elegiac German Novelist, Is Dead at 57|date=15 December 2001|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/15/books/w-g-sebald-elegiac-german-novelist-is-dead-at-57.html}}</ref> The coroner's report, released some six months after the accident, stated that Sebald had suffered a heart attack and had died of this condition before his car swerved across the road and collided with an oncoming lorry.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Angier|first=Carole|title=[[Speak, Silence|Speak, Silence: In Search of W.G. Sebald]]|publisher=Bloomsbury|year=2021}}</ref>

W.G. Sebald is buried in St. Andrew's churchyard in [[Framingham Earl]], close to where he lived.<ref>Uwe Schütte, ''W.G. Sebald: Einführung in Leben und Werk.'' Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2011, p. 33.</ref>

==Themes and style==
Sebald's works are largely concerned with the themes of [[memory]] and loss of memory (both personal and collective) and decay (of civilizations, traditions or physical objects). They are, in particular, attempts to reconcile himself with, and deal in literary terms with, the trauma of the [[Second World War]] and its effect on the [[Germans|German people]]. ''[[On the Natural History of Destruction]]'' (1999) is an essay he wrote on the [[Bombing of Germany|wartime bombing of German cities]] and the absence in German writing of any real response since then. His concern with [[The Holocaust]] is expressed in several books delicately tracing his own biographical connections with [[Jews]].<ref>Cf. Carol Jacobs, ''Sebald's Vision''. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2015, p. 72 and ''passim''.</ref>

Contrary to Germany's political and intellectual establishment,<ref>as represented, ''e.g.'', by [[Richard von Weizsäcker]] and [[Jürgen Habermas]].</ref> Sebald denied the singularity of the Holocaust: "I see the catastrophe caused by the Germans, dreadful as it was, by no means as a singular event – it developed with a certain logic from European history and then, for the same reason, ate itself into European history."<ref>W.G. Sebald, ''"Auf ungeheuer dünnem Eis." Gespräche 1971 bis 2001'', ed. Torsten Hoffmann, Frankfurt/M.: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 2011, p. 260: "Ich sehe die von den Deutschen angerichtete Katastrophe, grauenvoll wie sie war, durchaus nicht als Unikum an – sie hat sich mit einer gewissen Folgerichtigkeit herausentwickelt aus der europäischen Geschichte und sich dann, aus diesem Grunde auch, hineingefressen in die europäische Geschichte."</ref> Consequently, Sebald, in his literary works, always tried to situate and contextualize the Holocaust within modern European history, even avoiding a focus on Germany.

Sebald completely rejected the mainstream of Western German literature of the 1950s to 1970s, as represented by [[Heinrich Böll]] and [[Günter Grass]]. "I hate [...] the German postwar novel like pestilence," he said,<ref>W.G. Sebald, ''"Auf ungeheuer dünnem Eis." Gespräche 1971 bis 2001'', ed. Torsten Hoffmann, Frankfurt/M.: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 2011, p. 77: "Ich hasse [...] den deutschen Nachkriegsroman wie die Pest." Ironically, Sebald received the [[Heinrich-Böll-Preis]] in 1997.</ref> and instead took a deliberate counter-stance. Sebald's distinctive and innovative novels (which he mostly called simply: [[prose]] ("Prosa")<ref>Peter Morgan distinguishes the "novel" ''Austerlitz'' from the "prose narratives" ''Vertigo'', ''The Emigrants'' and ''The Rings of Saturn'' ('The Sign of Saturn: Melancholy, Homelessness and Apocalypse in W.G. Sebald's Prose Narratives.' In: Franz-Josef Deiters (ed.), ''Passagen: 50 Jahre Germanistik an der Monash Universität.'' St. Ingbert: Röhrig, 2010, pp. 491–517, p. 491).</ref>) were written in an intentionally somewhat old-fashioned and elaborate form of German (one passage in ''[[Austerlitz (novel)|Austerlitz]]'' famously contains a sentence that is 9 pages long). Sebald closely supervised the English translations of his works (principally by [[Anthea Bell]] and [[Michael Hulse]]). These include ''[[Vertigo (Sebald novel)|Vertigo]]'', ''[[The Emigrants (Sebald novel)|The Emigrants]]'', ''[[The Rings of Saturn]]'' and ''[[Austerlitz (novel)|Austerlitz]]''. They are notable for their curious and wide-ranging mixture of [[fact]] (or apparent fact), [[Recall (memory)|recollection]] and [[fiction]], often punctuated by indistinct black-and-white photographs set in evocative counterpoint to the narrative rather than illustrating it directly. His novels are presented as observations and recollections made while travelling around Europe. They also have a dry and mischievous sense of humour.<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/06/05/w-g-sebald-humorist|title=W.G. Sebald, Humorist|last=Wood|first=James|date=29 May 2017|magazine=The New Yorker|access-date=7 September 2019}}</ref>

Sebald was also the author of three books of poetry: ''[[For Years Now]]'' with [[Tess Jaray]] (2001), ''After Nature'' (1988), and ''Unrecounted'' (2004).

==Works==

===Novels===
* (1990) ''[[Vertigo (Sebald novel)|Vertigo]].'' London: Harvill. ({{Lang|de|Schwindel. Gefühle}}) English ed. 1999
* (1992) ''[[The Emigrants (Sebald novel)|The Emigrants]].'' London: Harvill. ({{Lang|de|Die Ausgewanderten. Vier lange Erzählungen}}) English ed. 1996
* (1995) ''[[The Rings of Saturn]].'' London: Harvill. ({{Lang|de|Die Ringe des Saturn. Eine englische Wallfahrt}}) English ed. 1998
* (2001) ''[[Austerlitz (novel)|Austerlitz]].'' London: Hamish Hamilton. English translation by [[Anthea Bell]] won the 2002 [[Independent Foreign Fiction Prize]].

===Poetry===
* (1988) ''After Nature.'' London: Hamish Hamilton. ({{Lang|de|Nach der Natur. Ein Elementargedicht}}) English ed. 2002
* (2001) ''[[For Years Now]].'' London: Short Books.
* (2003) ''Unrecounted.'' London: Hamish Hamilton. ({{Lang|de|Unerzählt, 33 Texte}}) English ed. 2004
* (2008) ''Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems, 1964–2001.'' London: Hamish Hamilton. ({{Lang|de|Über das Land und das Wasser: Ausgewählte Gedichte 1964–2001}}) English ed. 2011

===Non-fiction===
* (1998) ''[[A Place in the Country (essay collection)|A Place in the Country]].'' London: Hamish Hamilton. ({{Lang|de|Logis in einem Landhaus}}) English ed. 2013
* (1999) ''[[On the Natural History of Destruction]].'' London: Hamish Hamilton. ({{Lang|de|Luftkrieg und Literatur: Mit einem Essay zu Alfred Andersch}}) English ed. 2003
* (2003) ''Campo Santo.'' London: Hamish Hamilton. ({{Lang|de|Campo Santo, Prosa, Essays}}) English ed. 2005
* (2025) ''Silent Catastrophes: Essays.'' London: Hamish Hamilton. ({{Lang|de|Die Beschreibung des Unglücks}}. 1985. {{Lang|de|Unheimliche Heimat}}. 1991.)

==Influences==
The works of [[Jorge Luis Borges]], especially "[[The Garden of Forking Paths]]" and "[[Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius]]", were a major influence on Sebald. (Tlön and Uqbar appear in ''The Rings of Saturn.'')<ref name=MRC>{{cite book|last=McCulloh|first=Mark Richard|title=Understanding W. G. Sebald|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4JTdWubfiNMC|access-date=23 December 2007|year=2003|publisher=University of South Carolina Press|isbn=1-57003-506-7|page=66}}</ref> In a conversation during his final year, Sebald named [[Gottfried Keller]], [[Adalbert Stifter]], [[Heinrich von Kleist]] and [[Jean Paul]] as his literary models.<ref>Lynne Sharon Schwartz (ed.), ''The Emergence of Memory: Conversations with W.G. Sebald'', New York, NY/London/Melbourne/Toronto 2007, p. 166.</ref> He also credited the Austrian novelist [[Thomas Bernhard]] as a major influence on his work,<ref>[http://sebald.wordpress.com/2007/04/17/sebalds-voice/ "Sebald's Voice"], 17 April 2007</ref> and paid homage within his work to [[Franz Kafka|Kafka]]<ref>[http://sebald.wordpress.com/2013/01/22/among-kafkas-sons-sebald-roth-coetzee/ "Among Kafka's Sons: Sebald, Roth, Coetzee"], 22 January 2013; review of ''Three Sons'' by Daniel L. Medin, {{ISBN|978-0810125681}}</ref> and [[Vladimir Nabokov|Nabokov]] (the figure of Nabokov appears in every one of the four sections of ''The Emigrants'').<ref>[http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/brill/raa/2005/00000009/F0020003/art00004 "Netting the Butterfly Man: The Significance of Vladimir Nabokov in W. G. Sebald's The Emigrants"] by Adrian Curtin and Maxim D. Shrayer, in ''Religion and the Arts'', vol. 9, nos. 3–4, pp. 258–283, 1 November 2005</ref>

== Memorials ==
=== Sebaldweg ("Sebald Way") ===
As a memorial to the writer, in 2005 the town of [[Wertach]] created an eleven kilometre long walkway called the {{cite web |url=https://www.wertach.de/natuerlich-erleben/wandern/tourenplaner/sebaldweg.html |access-date= |website= |title=Sebaldweg}} It runs from the border post at [[Oberjoch]] (1,159m) to W. G. Sebald's birthplace on Grüntenseestrasse 3 in Wertach (915m). The route is that taken by the narrator in ''Il ritorno in patria'', the final section of ''[[Vertigo (Sebald novel)|Vertigo]]'' ("Schwindel. Gefühle") by W. G. Sebald. Six [[stele]]s have been erected along the way with texts from the book relating to the respective topographical place, and also with reference to fire and to people who died in the Second World War, two of Sebald's main themes.<ref name="Gutbrod-Sebald-Path">{{cite journal |last1=Gutbrod |first1=Hans |title=Sebald's Path in Wertach -- Commemorating the Commemorator |journal=Cultures of History Forum |date=31 May 2023 |doi=10.25626/0146 |doi-broken-date=12 July 2025 |url=https://cultures-of-history.uni-jena.de/exhibitions/germany/sebalds-path-in-wertach-commemorating-the-commemorator |access-date=6 June 2023}}</ref>

=== Sebald Copse ===
In the grounds of the [[University of East Anglia]] in [[Norwich]] a round wooden bench encircles a [[Fagus sylvatica#Cultivation|copper beech tree]], planted in 2003 by the family of W. G. Sebald in memory of the writer. Together with other trees donated by former students of the writer, the area is called the "Sebald Copse". The bench, whose form echoes ''[[The Rings of Saturn]]'', carries an inscription from the penultimate poem of ''Unerzählt'' ("Unrecounted"): "Unerzählt bleibt die Geschichte der abgewandten Gesichter" ("Unrecounted always it will remain the story of the averted faces"<ref>{{cite book |title=Saturn's Moons, W. G. Sebald - A Handbook|editor1=Jo Catling|editor2=Richard Hibbitt|translator-last1=Hamburger|translator-first1=Michael|year=2011|page=659|publisher=Legenda|isbn=978-1-906540-0-29}}</ref>).

=== ''Patience (After Sebald)'' ===
{{redirect|Patience (After Sebald)|its soundtrack by the Caretaker|Patience (After Sebald) (soundtrack)}}
In 2011, [[Grant Gee]] made the documentary ''Patience (After Sebald)'' about the author's trek through the East Anglian landscape.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/film/video/2012/jan/31/patience-after-sebald-trailer-video "Patience (After Sebald): watch the trailer – video"], ''The Guardian'' (31 January 2012)</ref>

==References==
=== Citations ===
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=== General and cited sources ===
* Arnold, Heinz Ludwig (ed.). ''W. G. Sebald''. Munich, 2003 ([[Text+Kritik]]. Zeitschrift für Literatur. IV, 158). Includes bibliography.
* Bewes, Timothy. "What is a Literary Landscape? Immanence and the Ethics of Form". ''differences'', vol. 16, no. 1 (Spring 2005), 63–102. Discusses the relation to landscape in the work of Sebald and Flannery O'Connor.
* Bigsby, Christopher. ''Remembering and Imagining the Holocaust: The Chain of Memory''. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006.
* Blackler, Deane. ''Reading W. G. Sebald: Adventure and Disobedience''. Camden House, 2007.
* [[Theo Breuer|Breuer, Theo]], "Einer der Besten. W. G. Sebald (1944–2001)" in T.B., Kiesel & Kastanie. ''Von neuen Gedichten und Geschichten'', Edition YE 2008.
* Denham, Scott and Mark McCulloh (eds.). ''W. G. Sebald: History, Memory, Trauma''. Berlin, Walter de Gruyter, 2005.
* Grumley, John, "Dialogue with the Dead: Sebald, Creatureliness, and the Philosophy of Mere Life", ''The European Legacy'', 16,4 (2011), 505–518.
* [[Carol Jacobs (academic)|Jacobs, Carol]]. ''Sebald's Vision''. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017.
* Long, J. J. ''W. G. Sebald: Image, Archive, Modernity''. New York, Columbia University Press, 2008.
* Long, J. J. and Anne Whitehead (eds.). ''W. G. Sebald: A Critical Companion''. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2006.
* McCulloh, Mark R. ''Understanding W. G. Sebald''. University of South Carolina Press, 2003.
* Patt, Lise et al. (eds.). ''Searching for Sebald: Photography after W. G. Sebald''. ICI Press, 2007. An anthology of essays on Sebald's use of images, with artist's projects inspired by Sebald.
* Wylie, John. "The Spectral Geographies of W. G. Sebald". ''Cultural Geographies'', 14,2 (2007), 171–188.
* Zaslove, Jerry. "W. G. Sebald and Exilic Memory: His Photographic Images of the Cosmogony of Exile and Restitution". ''Journal of the Interdisciplinary Crossroads'', Vol. 3 (No. 1) (April 2006).
* Rupprecht, Caroline. “Silkworms and Concentration Camps: W.G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn and Austerlitz” Asian Fusion: New Encounters in the Asian-German Avant-garde, Peter Lang, 2020. 33–54.

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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20041209204838/http://www.davidson.edu/academic/german/denham/SebaldBibliography.htm Complete bibliography of Sebald's works]
* [https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2021/10/21/wg-sebald-storyteller/ An essay] by [[Ben Lerner]] on Sebald in ''The New York Review of Books''
* {{cite news|last=Jaggi|first=Maya|author-link=Maya Jaggi|date=20 December 2001|title=The last word|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2001/dec/21/artsandhumanities.highereducation}} The last interview
* {{cite news |last=Mitchelmore |first=Stephen |url=http://www.spikemagazine.com/1104sebald.php |date=1 November 2004 |title=W. G. Sebald: Looking and Looking Away |work=[[Spike Magazine]]}}
* [http://www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/bw/bw011206w_g_sebald Audio interview with Sebald on KCRW's Bookworm] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140402153727/http://www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/bw/bw011206w_g_sebald |date=2 April 2014 }}
* [http://www.wgsebald.de Sebald-Forum]
* [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b044j7pt BBC Radio4 Program: "A German Genius in Britain"]

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