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Philippe Jaccottet
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Name
Philippe Jaccottet
Role
Poet
Books
L'ignorant, Chants d'en bas
Awards
Prix Goncourt de la Poesie
Similar People
Gustave Roud, Robert Musil, Maurice Chappaz, Rainer Maria Rilke, Jacques Chessex
Philippe JACCOTTET – Poésie et Nature (RTS, 1990)
Philippe Jaccottet ([filip ʒakotɛ]; born in Moudon, Switzerland, 30 June 1925) is a Francophone poet and translator from the Canton of Vaud, in Switzerland.
Philippe jaccottet le romantisme allemand rts 1977
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. 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.