Fleur Jaeggy

Fleur Jaeggy
Born	(1940-07-31) 31 July 1940 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. 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).
• 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, 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

Translations into Italian

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

External links

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