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Swiss author (born 1940)

Fleur Jaeggy
Born (1940-07-31) 31 July 1940 (age 84)
Zurich, Switzerland
Pen nameCarlotta Wieck
OccupationWriter, translator
LanguageItalian
Period1989–present
Notable awardsViareggio Prize 2002

Fleur Jaeggy (born 31 July 1940) is a Swiss author who writes in Italian. The Times Literary Supplement named her work Proleterka as a Best Book of the Year upon its US publication, and her Sweet Days of Discipline won the Premio Bagutta and the Premio Speciale Rapallo. As of 2021, six of her books have been translated into English.

Life

She was born in Zürich.

After completing her studies in Switzerland, Jaeggy went to live in Rome, where she met Ingeborg Bachmann and Thomas Bernhard. In 1968 she went to Milan to work for the publisher Adelphi Edizioni and married Roberto Calasso. Her first masterpiece was the novel I beati anni del castigo (1989). The Times Literary Supplement designated her novel Proleterka the best book of 2003. She is also a translator into Italian of Marcel Schwob and Thomas de Quincey.

She worked with the Italian musician Franco Battiato, under the pseudonym of Carlotta Wieck.

Selected bibliography

Fiction

  • Il dito in bocca (Adelphi, 1968). OCLC 604490511
  • L'angelo custode (Adelphi, 1971).
  • Le statue d'acqua (Adelphi, 1980). The Water Statues, trans. Gini Alhadeff (New Directions, 2021).
  • I beati anni del castigo (Adelphi, 1989). Sweet Days of Discipline, trans. Tim Parks (Heinemann/New Directions, 1993; And Other Stories, 2018; ISBN 9780811229036).
  • La paura del cielo (Adelphi, 1994). Last Vanities, trans. Tim Parks (New Directions, 1998; ISBN 9780811213745).
  • Proleterka (Adelphi, 2001). S. S. Proleterka, trans. Alastair McEwen (New Directions, 2003; And Other Stories, 2019; ISBN 9781911508564).
  • Vite congetturali (Adelphi, 2009). These Possible Lives, trans. Minna Zallman Proctor (New Directions, 2017; ISBN 9780811226875).
  • Sono il fratello di XX (Adelphi, 2014). I Am the Brother of XX, trans. Gini Alhadeff (New Directions/And Other Stories, 2017; ISBN 9781911508021).

Translations into Italian

References

  1. "Fleur Jaeggy | Planeta de Libros". PlanetadeLibros.
  2. Elisa Tonani, Storia della lingua italiana e storia della musica F. Cesati, 2005
  3. "These Possible Lives". www.ndbooks.com. 25 July 2017.
  4. Heti, Sheila (18 September 2017). "The Austere Fiction of Fleur Jaeggy". The New Yorker. Retrieved 11 June 2020.

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Recipients of the Bagutta Prize
1920s
1930s
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Recipients of the Viareggio Prize
1930s
1940sSilvio MicheliUmberto Saba (1946) • Antonio Gramsci (1947) • Aldo PalazzeschiElsa MoranteSibilla Aleramo (1948) • Arturo Carlo JemoloRenata Viganò (1949)
1950sFrancesco JovineCarlo Bernari (1950) • Domenico Rea (1951) • Tommaso Fiore (1952) • Carlo Emilio Gadda (1953) • Rocco Scotellaro (1954) • Vasco Pratolini (1955) • Carlo LeviGianna Manzini (1956) • Italo CalvinoPier Paolo Pasolini (1957) • Ernesto de Martino (1958) • Marino Moretti (1959)
1960sGiovanni Battista Angioletti (1960) • Alberto Moravia (1961) • Giorgio Bassani (1962) • Antonio DelfiniSergio Solmi (1963) • Giuseppe Berto (1964) • Goffredo Parise - Angelo Maria Ripellino (1965) • Ottiero OttieriAlfonso Gatto (1966) • Raffaello Brignetti (1967) • Libero Bigiaretti (1968) • Fulvio Tomizza (1969)
1970sNello Saito (1970) • Ugo Attardi (1971) • Romano Bilenchi (1972) • Achille Campanile (1973) • Clotilde Marghieri (1974) • Paolo Volponi (1975) • Mario TobinoDario BellezzaSergio Solmi (1976) • Davide Lajolo (1977) • Antonio AltomonteMario Luzi (1978) • Giorgio Manganelli (1979)
1980sStefano Terra (1980) • Enzo Siciliano (1981) • Primo Levi (1982) • Giuliana Morandini (1983) • Gina LagorioBruno Gentili (1984) • Manlio Cancogni (1985) • Marisa Volpi (1986) • Mario Spinella (1987) • Rosetta Loy (1988) • Salvatore Mannuzzu (1989)
1990sLuisa AdornoCesare VivianiMaurizio Calvesi (1990) • Antonio Debenedetti (1991) • Luigi Malerba (1992) • Alessandro Baricco (1993) • Antonio Tabucchi (1994) • Maurizio MaggianiElio Pagliarani (1995) • Ermanno ReaAlda Merini (1996) • Claudio PiersantiFranca GrisoniCorrado Stajano (1997) • Giorgio PressburgerMichele SoventeCarlo Ginzburg (1998) • Ernesto Franco (1999)
2000sGiorgio van StratenSandro Veronesi (2000) • Niccolò AmmanitiMichele RanchettiGiorgio Pestelli (2001) • Fleur JaeggyJolanda InsanaAlfonso Berardinelli (2002) • Giuseppe Montesano (2003) • Edoardo AlbinatiAndrea TagliapietraLivia Livi (2004) • Raffaele La CapriaAlberto ArbasinoMilo de Angelis (2005) • Gianni CelatiGiovanni AgostiGiuseppe ConteRoberto Saviano (2006) • Filippo TuenaPaolo MauriSilvia BreSimona BaldanziPaolo ColagrandePaolo Fallai (2007) • Francesca SanvitaleMiguel GotorEugenio De Signoribus (2008) • Edith BruckAdriano ProsperiEnnio Cavalli (2009)
2010sNicola LagioiaMichele EmmerPierluigi Cappello (2010) • Alessandro MariMario LavagettoGian Mario Villalta (2011) • Nicola GardiniFranco Lo PiparoAntonella Anedda (2012) • Paolo Di StefanoGiulio GuidorizziEnrico Testa (2013) • Francesco PecoraroAlessandro FoLuciano Mecacci (2014) • Antonio ScuratiMassimo BucciantiniFranco Buffoni (2015) • Franco CordelliBruno PischeddaSonia Gentili (2016) • Gianfranco CalligarichGiuseppe MontesanoStefano Carrai (2017) • Fabio GenovesiGiuseppe Lupo (2018) • Emanuele TreviRenato MinoreSaverio Ricci (2019)
2020sPaolo Di PaoloLuciano CecchinelGiulio Ferroni (2020) • Edith Bruck - Flavio Santi - Walter Siti (2021) • Silvia Sciorilli BorrelliPietro CastellittoClaudio DamianiWlodek GoldkornAgnese PiniVeronica RaimoSilvia Ronchey (2022)


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