Fleur Jaeggy

Her work has been translated into more than twenty languages.

• Pen Name — Carlotta Wieck • Born — 31 July 1940 • Birthplace — Zurich, Switzerland • Occupation — Writer, translator • Language — Italian • Period — 1968–present • Genre — Novel, short story • Awards — Viareggio Prize 2002

Jaeggy was born in Zürich in 1940, and grew up speaking German, French and Italian. 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. She is also a translator into Italian of Marcel Schwob and Thomas de Quincey. Her 1989 novel Sweet Days of Discipline won the Premio Bagutta as well as the Premio Speciale Rapallo. It was published in English, translated by Tim Parks. In 2021, New Directions published Jaeggy's 1980 The Water Statues in English, translated by Gini Alhadeff. The book is dedicated to Jaeggy's friend, Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann. Jaeggy's work has been translated into more than twenty languages. She won the 2024 Gottfried Keller Prize and the 2025 Swiss Grand Prix de la Littérature. Jaeggy worked with the Italian musician Franco Battiato under the pseudonym of Carlotta Wieck.

• Il dito in bocca (Adelphi, 1968). • 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; And Other Stories, 2018). • La paura del cielo (Adelphi, 1994). Last Vanities, trans. Tim Parks (New Directions, 1998). • Proleterka (Adelphi, 2001). S. S. Proleterka, trans. Alastair McEwen (New Directions, 2003; And Other Stories, 2019). • Vite congetturali (Adelphi, 2009). These Possible Lives, trans. Minna Zallman Proctor (New Directions, 2017). • Sono il fratello di XX (Adelphi, 2014). I Am the Brother of XX, trans. Gini Alhadeff (New Directions/And Other Stories, 2017).

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

She also worked under the name Carlotta Wieck. Her recorded languages were Italian, German, Swiss German and English. She married Roberto Calasso.