# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/w-g-sebald
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:18:50.013Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/w-g-sebald"
name: "W. G. Sebald"
slug: "w-g-sebald"
description: "Winfried Georg Sebald, known as W. G. Sebald or Max Sebald, was a German writer and academic. At the time of his death at the age of 57, he was according to The New Yorker \"widely recognized for his extraordinary contribution to world literature.\""
tagline: "German writer and academic (1944-2001)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9d/W._G._Sebald_%28writer%2C_born_1944%29.jpg/330px-W._G._Sebald_%28writer%2C_born_1944%29.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1944-05-18"
deathDate: "2001-12-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           24.255272
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump