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W. G. Sebald

1944 - 2001

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Winfried Georg Sebald (18 May 1944 – 14 December 2001), known as W. G. Sebald or (as he preferred) Max Sebald, was a German writer and academic. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. W. G. Sebald is the 1,068th most popular writer (down from 929th in 2019), the 1,080th most popular biography from Germany (down from 895th in 2019) and the 69th most popular German Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, W. G. Sebald ranks 1,068 out of 7,302. Before him are Brian O'Nolan, Clifford D. Simak, Zahra Khanom Tadj es-Saltaneh, P. L. Travers, William Gibson, and Nikolay Nekrasov. After him are Paul Bourget, Marcus Manilius, Meša Selimović, Ilia Chavchavadze, Leigh Hunt, and Thomas Pynchon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, W. G. Sebald ranks 99. Before him are Bora Milutinović, Nebahat Çehre, Klaus Nomi, Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Moe Tucker, and Kary Mullis. After him are Killing of Peter Fechter, Karin Schubert, Salvador Sánchez Cerén, Jeroen Krabbé, Ian McDiarmid, and Donna Haraway. Among people deceased in 2001, W. G. Sebald ranks 43. Before him are Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, Balthus, Emilie Schindler, Jacques Mayol, John Lee Hooker, and Ashok Kumar. After him are Isaac Stern, Charles Trenet, Anna Mani, Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark, Giovanni Leone, and Seishiro Shimatani.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, W. G. Sebald ranks 1,080 out of 7,253. Before him are Konrad Witz (1400), Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (1912), Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel (1886), Uli Hoeneß (1952), Marian Gold (1954), and Franz Ziereis (1905). After him are Franz, Duke of Bavaria (1933), Georg Baselitz (1938), Ralf Dahrendorf (1929), Peter Minuit (1589), Oskar Schlemmer (1888), and Killing of Peter Fechter (1944).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, W. G. Sebald ranks 69. Before him are Joost van den Vondel (1587), Bettina von Arnim (1785), Johann Peter Eckermann (1792), August von Kotzebue (1761), Charles De Coster (1827), and Alfred Brehm (1829). After him are Ernst Barlach (1870), Tannhäuser (1205), Marie of Cleves, Duchess of Orléans (1426), Johannes Valentinus Andreae (1586), Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse (1868), and Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué (1777).

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