Fleur Jaeggy

Fleur Jaeggy
Born	(1940-07-31) 31 July 1940 (age 83) 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. 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

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 (
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;
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;
ISBN 9781911508564
).

Vite congetturali (Adelphi, 2009). These Possible Lives, trans. Minna Zallman Proctor (New Directions, 2017;
ISBN 9780811226875).^[3]

Sono il fratello di XX (Adelphi, 2014). I Am the Brother of XX, trans. Gini Alhadeff (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 (18 September 2017). "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.).
OCLC 62309181
.

Wollen, Audrey, "The Circuitous Sublime" (Review of Sweet Days of Discipline, The Water Statues, and I Am the Brother of XX.)

v t e Recipients of the Bagutta Prize
1920s	Giovan Battista Angioletti (1927) Giovanni Comisso (1928) Vincenzo Cardarelli (1929)
1930s	Gino Rocca (1930) Giovanni Titta Rosa (1931) Leonida Rèpaci (1932) Raul Radice (1933) Carlo Emilio Gadda (1934) Enrico Sacchetti (1935) Silvio Negro (1936)
1940s	Dario Ortolani (1947) Pier Antonio Quarantotti Gambini (1948) Giulio Confalonieri (1949)
1950s	Vitaliano Brancati (1950) Indro Montanelli (1951) Francesco Serantini (1952) Leonardo Borghese (1953) Giuseppe Marotta (1954) Alfonso Gatto (1955) Giuseppe Lanza (1956) Pier Angelo Soldini (1957) Lorenzo Montano (1958) Italo Calvino (1959)
1960s	Enrico Emanuelli (1960) Giorgio Vigolo (1961) Giuseppe Dessì (1962) Ottiero Ottieri (1963) Tommaso Landolfi (1964) Biagio Marin (1965) Manlio Cancogni (1966) Primo Levi (1967) Piero Chiara (1968) Niccolò Tucci (1969)
1970s	Alberto Vigevani (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) Livio Garzanti (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 Mariano Bargellini (2000) Serena Vitale (2001) Roberto Calasso Giorgio Orelli (2002) Michele Mari Edoardo Sanguineti Eva Cantarella (2003) Franco Cordero (2004) Rosetta Loy (2005) Filippo Tuena Eugenio Borgna (2006) Alessandro Spina (2007) Andrej Longo (2008) Melania Gaia Mazzucco (2009)
2010s	Corrado Stajano (2010) Andrea Bajani (2011) Gianfranco Calligarich and Giovanni Mariotti (2012) Antonella Tarpino (2013) Maurizio Cucchi and Valerio Magrelli (2014) Sandro Veronesi (2015) Paolo Di Stefano and Paolo Maurensig (2016) Vivian Lamarque (2017) Helena Janeczek (2018) Marco Balzano (2019)
2020s	Enrico Deaglio (2020) Giorgio Fontana (2021) Benedetta Craveri (2022)

v t e Recipients of the Viareggio Prize
1930s	Anselmo Bucci – Lorenzo Viani (1930) Corrado Tumiati (1931) Antonino Foschini (1932) Achille Campanile (1933) Raffaele Calzini (1934) Mario Massa – Stefano Pirandello (1935) Riccardo Bacchelli (1936) Guelfo Civinini (1937) Vittorio Giovanni Rossi – Enrico Pea (1938) Arnaldo Frateili – Orio Vergani – Maria Bellonci (1939)
1940s	Silvio Micheli – Umberto Saba (1946) • Antonio Gramsci (1947) • Aldo Palazzeschi – Elsa Morante – Sibilla Aleramo (1948) • Arturo Carlo Jemolo – Renata Viganò (1949)
1950s	Francesco Jovine – Carlo Bernari (1950) • Domenico Rea (1951) • Tommaso Fiore (1952) • Carlo Emilio Gadda (1953) • Rocco Scotellaro (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) • Antonio Delfini – Sergio Solmi (1963) • Giuseppe Berto (1964) • Goffredo Parise - Angelo Maria Ripellino (1965) • Ottiero Ottieri – Alfonso Gatto (1966) • Raffaello Brignetti (1967) • Libero Bigiaretti (1968) • Fulvio Tomizza (1969)
1970s	Nello Saito (1970) • Ugo Attardi (1971) • Romano Bilenchi (1972) • Achille Campanile (1973) • Clotilde Marghieri (1974) • Paolo Volponi (1975) • Mario Tobino – Dario Bellezza – Sergio Solmi (1976) • Davide Lajolo (1977) • Antonio Altomonte – Mario Luzi (1978) • Giorgio Manganelli (1979)
1980s	Stefano Terra (1980) • Enzo Siciliano (1981) • Primo Levi (1982) • Giuliana Morandini (1983) • Gina Lagorio – Bruno Gentili (1984) • Manlio Cancogni (1985) • Marisa Volpi (1986) • Mario Spinella (1987) • Rosetta Loy (1988) • Salvatore Mannuzzu (1989)
1990s	Luisa Adorno – Cesare Viviani – Maurizio Calvesi (1990) • Antonio Debenedetti (1991) • Luigi Malerba (1992) • Alessandro Baricco (1993) • Antonio Tabucchi (1994) • Maurizio Maggiani – Elio Pagliarani (1995) • Ermanno Rea – Alda Merini (1996) • Claudio Piersanti – Franca Grisoni – Corrado Stajano (1997) • Giorgio Pressburger – Michele Sovente – Carlo Ginzburg (1998) • Ernesto Franco (1999)
2000s	Giorgio van Straten – Sandro Veronesi (2000) • Niccolò Ammaniti – Michele Ranchetti – Giorgio Pestelli (2001) • Fleur Jaeggy – Jolanda Insana – Alfonso Berardinelli (2002) • Giuseppe Montesano (2003) • Edoardo Albinati – Andrea Tagliapietra – Livia Livi (2004) • Raffaele La Capria – Alberto Arbasino – Milo de Angelis (2005) • Gianni Celati – Giovanni Agosti – Giuseppe Conte – Roberto Saviano (2006) • Filippo Tuena – Paolo Mauri – Silvia Bre – Simona Baldanzi – Paolo Colagrande – Paolo Fallai (2007) • Francesca Sanvitale – Miguel Gotor – Eugenio De Signoribus (2008) • Edith Bruck – Adriano Prosperi – Ennio Cavalli (2009)
2010s	Nicola Lagioia – Michele Emmer – Pierluigi Cappello (2010) • Alessandro Mari – Mario Lavagetto – Gian Mario Villalta (2011) • Nicola Gardini – Franco Lo Piparo – Antonella Anedda (2012) • Paolo Di Stefano – Giulio Guidorizzi – Enrico Testa (2013) • Francesco Pecoraro – Alessandro Fo – Luciano Mecacci (2014) • Antonio Scurati – Massimo Bucciantini – Franco Buffoni (2015) • Franco Cordelli – Bruno Pischedda – Sonia Gentili (2016) • Gianfranco Calligarich – Giuseppe Montesano – Stefano Carrai (2017) • Fabio Genovesi – Giuseppe Lupo (2018) • Emanuele Trevi – Renato Minore – Saverio Ricci (2019)
2020s	Paolo Di Paolo – Luciano Cecchinel – Giulio Ferroni (2020) • Edith Bruck - Flavio Santi - Walter Siti (2021) • Silvia Sciorilli Borrelli – Pietro Castellitto – Claudio Damiani – Wlodek Goldkorn – Agnese Pini – Veronica Raimo – Silvia Ronchey (2022)

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