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Carole Angier on writing the first biography of W.G. Sebald
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Carole Angier on writing the first biography of W.G. Sebald

The Writing Life

September 24, 20211h 16m

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Show Notes

W.G. Sebald wrote books including The Emigrants, Austerlitz and The Rings of Saturn, and mixed fiction, history, autobiography and photography . Carole Angier has now published the first biography of Sebald, Speak, Silence: In Search of W.G. Sebald, and is on the podcast today talking to Alice Kent. They go into fine detail about Carole's research, her methods for structuring a biography and the on-going ethical debates around writing about someone's life.

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