bad news

[Burns, Erik]

^BC-Britain-Obit Sebald<
^German author Sebald dead after car crash in Britain;
daughter injured<
¶   LONDON (AP) _ German-born author and academic Winfried Georg Sebald has
died at the age of 57 following a road accident in Britain Friday.
¶   The British-based author, also known as Max, was killed when his car
collided head-on with a lorry in Norwich shortly after midday Friday, police
confirmed Saturday.
¶   Sebald's daughter, who was traveling as a passenger in the Peugeot 306
car, received serious injuries.
¶   Sebald, 57, professor of European Literature at the University of East
Anglia in Norwich, was an author tipped for greatness and had already
impressed the literary world with his books based on tragic events of the
last 200 years.
¶   A spokeswoman for Norfolk Police, speaking on condition of anonymity,
said the body of a man had been taken from the wreckage, but it had yet to
be formally identified.
¶   She said the man was killed when a car collided with the lorry as it
rounded a sweeping left hand bend and veered in to the wrong lane.
¶   Born in Wertach im Allgau in Germany, he studied German language and
literature in Freiburg, Switzerland and at Manchester.
¶   He became assistant lecturer at the University of Manchester in 1966 and
moved to England permanently in 1970 when he began teaching at the
University of East Anglia.
¶   He had been Professor of European Literature since 1987 and lived in
Norwich with his wife and had one daughter.
¶   His books included "Vertigo," "Europe," "The Past & The Trials of
Knowing," "Austerlitz" and "Rings of Saturn."
¶   (phs)
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