Fleur Jaeggy

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Fleur Jaeggy
Born (1940-07-31) 31 July 1940 (age 84)
Zurich, Switzerland
Pen nameCarlotta Wieck
OccupationWriter, translator
LanguageItalian
Period1968–present
GenreNovel, short story
Notable awards Viareggio Prize 2002
Spouse
(m. 1968;died 2021)

Fleur Jaeggy (born 31 July 1940) is a Swiss author who writes in Italian. The Times Literary Supplement named her novel Proleterka a Best Book of the Year upon its publication in the United States, 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.

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Life

Jaeggy was born in Zürich. After completing her studies in Switzerland, she 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. 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.

Jaeggy worked with the Italian musician Franco Battiato under the pseudonym of Carlotta Wieck. [2]

Selected bibliography

Fiction

Translations into Italian

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References

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  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.