After Nature

W. G. Sebaldwas born in Wertach im Allgau, Germany, in 1944. He studied German language and literature in Freiburg, Switzerland, and Manchester. He taught at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, for thirty years, becoming professor of European literature in 1987, and from 1989 to 1994 was the first director of the British Centre for Literary Translation. His previously translated booksThe Rings of Saturn,The Emigrants,Vertigo, andAusterlitzhave won a number of international awards, including the National Book Critics Circle Award, theLos Angeles TimesBook Award, the Berlin Literature Prize, and the Literatur Nord Prize. He died in December 2001.Sebald, W. G. is the author of 'After Nature' with ISBN 9780375504853 and ISBN 0375504850.