W.G. Sebald in Conversation with A.S. Byatt
Organised by The Royal Over-Seas League in association with the
Goethe-Institut London and The Harvill Press
Thursday 2 December 1999 at 7.30pm at the Royal Over-Seas League,
Over-Seas House, Park Place, St James's Street London SW1A 1LR, tel.
0171-408 0214 xt219
Born in Germany in 1944, W.G. Sebald has lived in England for more
than 30 years. He is Professor of European Languages at the
University of East Anglia and started to write fiction, in his native
German language, in the mid-1980s. His works soon established him as
one of the most distinguished living authors: 'Sebald's narratives
are among the greatest and most moving achievements of contemporary
German literature.' (Rheinischer Merkur) So far two of his books have
been translated into English. The Emigrants (1996) evokes the
experience of exile, in the form of four accounts of the lives of
Jewish emigrants in Norfolk, Manchester, Austria and America. The
Rings of Saturn (1998) is the record of a journey on foot through
coastal East Anglia in which the narrator's tale acts as a conductor
for meditations on an extraordinary range of people and cultures,
both past and present.
A.S. Byatt, who like other leading novelists is a great admirer of
W.G. Sebald's works, will be talking to the author. W.G. Sebald will
also read from his books, including excerpts from his first prose
work, Vertigo, due to be published in English in October 1999.
Tickets: stlg3.00 / 2.50 concessions.
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