Dead author is critics' choice
11 April 2012
A novelist who died in a car crash in December has won one of the world's most prestigious literary awards.
German- born WG Sebald, who had lived in Britain since 1970, won the National Book Critics Circle fiction prize in New York for his work, Austerlitz.
His agent, Andrew Wylie, accepted the award last night on his behalf. Sebald, 57, was killed in a head-on collision between a car and a lorry in Norwich, only two months after the book's US release.
His other works include Vertigo, The Emigrants and The Rings of Saturn.
Other winners included Martin Amis, in criticism, for The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews, 1971-2000.
