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German-born English non-fiction writer (–)

Sybille Bedford, OBE (16 March – 17 February ) was a German-born English writer of non-fiction and semi-autobiographical fiction books. She was a recipient of the Golden PEN Award.

Early life

She was born as Sybille Aleid Elsa von Schoenebeck in Charlottenburg, west of Berlin in the Kingdom of Prussia, to Maximilian Josef von Schoenebeck (–), a German aristocrat, retired lieutenant colonel and art collector, and his German Jewish wife, Elisabeth Bernhardt (–).^[1] Sybille was raised in the Roman Catholic faith of her father at CastleFeldkirch in Baden.

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She had a half-sister by her father's first marriage to Elisabeth Marchesani, Maximiliane Henriette von Schoenebeck (later Baroness von Dincklage, aka Jacko or Catsy). Her parents divorced in , and she remained with her father, under somewhat impoverished circumstances in the midst of his art and wine collection.

He died in , when she was 14 years old