Fleur Jaeggy

Fleur Jaeggy
Born	(1940-07-31) 31 July 1940 (age 81) Zurich, Switzerland
Pen name	Carlotta Wieck
Occupation	Writer, translator
Language	Italian
Period	1989–present
Notable awards	Viareggio Prize 2002

Fleur Jaeggy (born 31 July 1940) is a Swiss author, who writes in Italian. 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
- Translated by Tim Parks as Sweet Days of Discipline (Heinemann/New Directions, 1993. ISBN 9780811229036 ; And Other Stories, 2018).
La paura del cielo (Adelphi, 1994). ISBN 9788845913723
- Translated by Tim Parks as Last Vanities (New Directions). ISBN 9780811213745
Proleterka (Adelphi, 2001).
- Translated by Alastair McEwen as S. S. Proleterka (New Directions, 2003; And Other Stories, 2019. ISBN 9781911508564
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).
- Translated by Gini Alhadeff as I Am the Brother of XX (New Directions; And Other Stories, 2017). ISBN 9781911508021^[4]

Translations into Italian[]

Marcel Schwob, Vite immaginarie (Adelphi, 1972).
Thomas de Quincey, Gli ultimi giorni di Immanuel Kant (Adelphi, 1983).

References[]

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

External links[]

Fleur Jaeggy on ItaliaLibri
Paola Gilardi (2005). "Fleur Jaeggy". In Andreas Kotte (ed.). Theaterlexikon der Schweiz (TLS) / Dictionnaire du théâtre en Suisse (DTS) / Dizionario Teatrale Svizzero / Lexicon da teater svizzer [Theater Dictionary of Switzerland] (in Italian). 2. Zürich: Chronos. p. 914. ISBN 978-3-0340-0715-3. LCCN 2007423414. OCLC 62309181.

show v t Recipients of the Bagutta Prize
1920s	Giovan Battista Angioletti (1927) Giovanni Comisso (1928) Vincenzo Cardarelli (1929)
1930s	(1930) Giovanni Titta Rosa (1931) Leonida Rèpaci (1932) Raul Radice (1933) Carlo Emilio Gadda (1934) (1935) Silvio Negro (1936)
1940s	(1947) Pier Antonio Quarantotti Gambini (1948) Giulio Confalonieri (1949)
1950s	Vitaliano Brancati (1950) Indro Montanelli (1951) (1952) (1953) Giuseppe Marotta (1954) Alfonso Gatto (1955) Giuseppe Lanza (1956) Pier Angelo Soldini (1957) (1958) Italo Calvino (1959)
1960s	Enrico Emanuelli (1960) (1961) Giuseppe Dessì (1962) Ottiero Ottieri (1963) Tommaso Landolfi (1964) Biagio Marin (1965) (1966) Primo Levi (1967) Piero Chiara (1968) Niccolò Tucci (1969)
1970s	(1970) Piero Gadda Conti (1971) Anna Banti (1972) Sergio Solmi (1973) Gianni Celati (1974) Enzo Forcella (1975) Mario Soldati (1976) Sandro Penna (1977) Carlo Cassola (1978) Mario Rigoni Stern (1979)
1980s	Giovanni Macchia (1980) Pietro Citati (1981) Vittorio Sereni (1982) Giorgio Bassani (1983) Natalia Ginzburg (1984) Francesca Duranti (1985) Leonardo Sciascia (1986) Claudio Magris (1987) Luciano Erba (1988) Luigi Meneghello (1989)
1990s	Fleur Jaeggy (1990) (1991) Giorgio Bocca (1992) Giovanni Giudici (1993) Alberto Arbasino (1994) Daniele Del Giudice (1995) Raffaello Baldini (1996) Sergio Ferrero (1997) Giovanni Raboni (1998) Fabio Carpi (1999)
2000s	Andrea Zanzotto (2000) Serena Vitale (2001) Roberto Calasso Giorgio Orelli (2002) Michele Mari Edoardo Sanguineti Eva Cantarella (2003) (2004) Rosetta Loy (2005) (2006) Alessandro Spina (2007) Andrej Longo (2008) Melania Gaia Mazzucco (2009)
2010s	(2010) and (2011)

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1930s	Anselmo Bucci – (1930) (1931) (1932) Achille Campanile (1933) Raffaele Calzini (1934) – (1935) Riccardo Bacchelli (1936) (1937) Vittorio Giovanni Rossi – (1938) – – Maria Bellonci (1939)
1940s	– Umberto Saba (1946) • Antonio Gramsci (1947) • Aldo Palazzeschi – Elsa Morante – Sibilla Aleramo (1948) • – Renata Viganò (1949)
1950s	Francesco Jovine – Carlo Bernari (1950) • (1951) • Tommaso Fiore (1952) • Carlo Emilio Gadda (1953) • (1954) • Vasco Pratolini (1955) • Carlo Levi – Gianna Manzini (1956) • Italo Calvino – Pier Paolo Pasolini (1957) • Ernesto de Martino (1958) • Marino Moretti (1959)
1960s	Giovanni Battista Angioletti (1960) • Alberto Moravia (1961) • Giorgio Bassani (1962) • – Sergio Solmi (1963) • Giuseppe Berto (1964) • Goffredo Parise (1965) • Ottiero Ottieri – Alfonso Gatto (1966) • Raffaello Brignetti (1967) • Libero Bigiaretti (1968) • Fulvio Tomizza (1969)
1970s	(1970) • Ugo Attardi (1971) • Romano Bilenchi (1972) • Achille Campanile (1973) • (1974) • Paolo Volponi (1975) • Mario Tobino – Dario Bellezza – Sergio Solmi (1976) • (1977) • – Mario Luzi (1978) • Giorgio Manganelli (1979)
1980s	(1980) • Enzo Siciliano (1981) • Primo Levi (1982) • Giuliana Morandini (1983) • Gina Lagorio – (1984) • (1985) • Marisa Volpi (1986) • (1987) • Rosetta Loy (1988) • Salvatore Mannuzzu (1989)
1990s	Luisa Adorno – – (1990) • (1991) • Luigi Malerba (1992) • Alessandro Baricco (1993) • Antonio Tabucchi (1994) • – Elio Pagliarani (1995) • Ermanno Rea – Alda Merini (1996) • – – (1997) • Giorgio Pressburger – – Carlo Ginzburg (1998) • (1999)
2000s	Giorgio van Straten – Sandro Veronesi (2000) • Niccolò Ammaniti – – Giorgio Pestelli (2001) • Fleur Jaeggy – Jolanda Insana – (2002) • (2003) • Edoardo Albinati – – (2004) • Raffaele La Capria – Alberto Arbasino – Milo de Angelis (2005) • Gianni Celati – – Giuseppe Conte – Roberto Saviano (2006) • – – – – – (2007) • Francesca Sanvitale – – Eugenio De Signoribus (2008) • Edith Bruck – – (2009)
2010s	Nicola Lagioia – – Pierluigi Cappello (2010) • – – (2011) • – – Antonella Anedda (2012) • – – (2013) • – – (2014) • Antonio Scurati – – Franco Buffoni (2015) • – – (2016) • – – (2017) • – (2018) • Emanuele Trevi – – (2019)
2020s	– – (2020)

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