Question: Which author would be older today Miriam Toews or W. G. Sebald?
Context: The Rings of Saturn (German: Die Ringe des Saturn: Eine englische Wallfahrt - An English Pilgrimage) is a 1995 novel by the German writer W. G. Sebald.  Its first-person narrative arc is the account by a nameless narrator (who resembles the author in typical Sebaldian fashion) on a walking tour of Suffolk.  In addition to describing the places he sees and people he encounters, including translator Michael Hamburger, Sebald discusses various episodes of history and literature, including the introduction of silkworm cultivation to Europe and the writings of Thomas Browne, which attach in some way to the larger text.  The book was published in English in 1998.  A film, "Patience (After Sebald)", directed by Grant Gee and released in 2012, is based on this book. All My Puny Sorrows is the sixth novel by Canadian writer Miriam Toews.  The novel won the 2014 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and was shortlisted for the 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize, the 2015 Folio Prize for Literature, and the 2015 Wellcome Book Prize.  Toews has said that the novel draws heavily on the events leading up to the 2010 suicide of her sister, Marjorie. Winfried Georg Sebald (18 May 1944 – 14 December 2001), 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 being cited by many literary critics as one of the greatest living authors and had been tipped as a possible future winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.  In a 2007 interview, Horace Engdahl, former secretary of the Swedish Academy, mentioned Sebald, Ryszard Kapuściński and Jacques Derrida as three recently deceased writers who would have been worthy laureates. On the Natural History of Destruction is a 1999 book by the German writer W. G. Sebald.  Its original German title is Luftkrieg und Literatur, which means "Air war and literature".  It consists of essays about literature and writers, through which Sebald discusses the German processing of World War II. Austerlitz is a 2001 novel by the German writer W. G. Sebald.  It was Sebald's final novel.  The book received the National Book Critics Circle Award. Miriam Toews ( ; born 1964 in Steinbach, Manitoba) is a Canadian writer, best known for her novels "A Complicated Kindness" and "All My Puny Sorrows".  She has won a number of literary prizes including the Governor General's Award for Fiction and the Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award for body of work.  She is also a two-time finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and a two-time winner of the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Charlotte Temple is a novel by British-American author Susanna Rowson, originally published in England in 1791 under the title Charlotte, A Tale of Truth.  It tells the story of a schoolgirl, Charlotte Temple, who is seduced by a British officer and brought to America, where she is abandoned, pregnant, sick and in poverty.  The first American edition was published in 1794 and the novel became a bestseller.  It has gone through over 200 American editions.  Late in life, the author would write a sequel that would be published posthumously. Vertigo (German: Schwindel.  Gefühle. )  is a 1990 novel by the German author W. G. Sebald.  The first of its four sections is a short but conventional biography of Stendhal, who is referred to not by his pen name but by his given name of Beyle.  The second is a travelogue of two journeys made to the Alpine region by an unnamed narrator whose biography resembles Sebald's; an episode from the life of Casanova is also featured.  The third describes a difficult period in the life of Kafka, referred to only as "Dr. K." And the fourth is a nostalgic recounting of the narrator's visit to his German hometown of "W," a rural village which he has seen nothing of for decades.  Sebald makes notable use of leitmotif, such as sensations of dizziness as suggested in the title, and deceased persons lying covered on platforms.  The novel functions along with Sebald's subsequent works "The Emigrants" and "The Rings of Saturn" as a trilogy.  All three works were translated into English by Michael Hulse in partnership with Sebald. A Complicated Kindness is the third novel by Canadian author Miriam Toews.  The novel won a number of awards including the Governor General's Award for English Fiction, the CBA Libris Fiction Award, and CBC's Canada Reads. Irma Voth is the fifth novel by Canadian author Miriam Toews.  The novel, about a Mennonite teenager whose life is transformed when a bohemian film crew comes to her settlement to make a film about Mennonites, was informed by Toews' experience as lead actress in "Silent Light", the award-winning film written and directed by Mexican filmmaker, Carlos Reygadas.
Answer: W. G. Sebald