Fleur Jaeggy

Fleur Jaeggy (born 31 July 1940) is a Swiss author, who writes in Italian.

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

As of 2019, she has five novels translated into English. The Times Literary Supplement named 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.

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.[1] She is also a translator into Italian of Marcel Schwob and Thomas de Quincey.

She worked with the Italian musician Franco Battiato,[2] 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).
  • I beati anni del castigo (Adelphi, 1989). ISBN 9788845910081
  • La paura del cielo (Adelphi, 1994). ISBN 9788845913723
  • Proleterka (Adelphi, 2001).
  • Vite congetturali (Adelphi, 2009).
    • Translated by Minna Zallman Proctor as These Possible Lives (New Directions,[3] 2017). ISBN 9780811226875
  • Sono il fratello di XX (Adelphi, 2014).

Translations into Italian

References


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