female author
modern europe
Fleur Jaeggy is a Swiss author who writes in Italian. The Times Literary Supplement named her novel Proleterka a Best Book of the Year upon its publication in the United States, and her Sweet Days of Discipline won the Premio Bagutta and the Premio Speciale Rapallo. She was awarded the 2024 Gottfried Keller Prize and the 2025 Swiss Grand Prix de la Littérature. As of 2021, six of her books have been translated into English. Her work has been translated into more than twenty languages.— Wikipedia
Works
Le statue d'acqua
The Water Statues
Italian · 1980Novel
1 translation
I beati anni del castigo
Sweet Days of Discipline
Italian · 1989Novel
1 translation
La paura del cielo
Fear of the Sky
Italian · 1994Short Story Collection / Tales
1 translation
Proleterka
S. S. Proleterka
Italian · 2003Novel
1 translation
Vite congetturali
These Possible Lives
Italian · 2009Nonfiction / Essays / Treatise
1 translation
Sono il fratello di XX
I Am the Brother of XX
Italian · 2014Short Story Collection / Tales
1 translation