Philippe Jaccottet

Philippe Jaccottet, in 1991.

Philippe Jaccottet (French: [filip ʒakotɛ]; born in Moudon, Switzerland, 30 June 1925) is a Francophone poet and translator from the Canton of Vaud, in Switzerland.

Life and work

After completing his studies in Lausanne, he lived several years in Paris. In 1953, moved to the town of Grignan in Provence. He has translated numerous authors and poets into French, including Goethe, Hölderlin, Mann, Mandelstam, Góngora, Leopardi, Musil, Rilke, Homer and Ungaretti. He was awarded the German international Petrarca-Preis in 1988 for his poetry.

In 2014, Philippe Jaccottet became the fifteenth living author to be published in the prestigious Bibliothèque de la Pléiade.[1][2] After Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Blaise Cendrars and Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz, he is the fourth Swiss author to be published in the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade.[3]

Honours

Publications

See also

Notes and references

  1. "Le poète vaudois Philippe Jaccottet entre de son vivant dans La Pléiade", www.rts.ch (page visited on 14 February 2014).
  2. "Philippe Jaccottet", www.la-pleiade.fr (page visited on 14 February 2014).
  3. (French) Le Temps Saturday 15 February 2014.
  4. "Lauréats". Académie Goncourt. Retrieved 29 October 2010.

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