From left to right: Florian Zeller, Caroline de Monaco and Philippe Jaccottet.
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The Swiss poet, translator and literary critic Philippe Jaccottet, winner of many prizes including the Goncourt for poetry, died on the night of Wednesday to Thursday at the age of 95, his son announced.
He died at his home in Grignan, in the Drôme, where he will be buried "in the strictest privacy," said Antoine Jaccottet.
French-speaking Swiss, he is one of only three poets, along with René Char and Saint-John Perse, to have been published during his lifetime in the prestigious collection of the Pléiade.
Awarded numerous French and German prizes, including the Goncourt de la poésie (2003) and the Grand prix national de Traduction (1987), Philippe Jaccottet, who has been living in Grignan for more than half a century, is one of the poets contemporaries which has been the subject of more theses and critiques.
His successful poems
He was born on June 30, 1925 in Modon, in the Swiss canton of Vaud, and spent most of his life in Grignan.
His first work,
Trois poèmes aux demons
, appeared in 1945. He then began to publish many texts, notably for the Nouvelle Revue de Lausanne.
His first collection of poems
L'Effraie
(1953) was published by Gallimard editions, in the Métamorphoses collection, edited by Jean Paulhan.
He also participated in
La Nouvelle Revue Française
and made sure to open it up to German literature.
Successful, his poems entered the Gallimard / Poésie collection, notably
A la lumière d'hiver
(1977) and
La Semaison
(1984).
His translations made known in France the Austrian writer Robert Musil (
The Man Without Qualities
), the Russian Ossip Mandelstam, the Italian Giuseppe Ungaretti as well as a considerable part of Rilke - including the
Correspondence
with Lou Andreas-Salomé.
We also owe him a transposition of
Homer's
Odyssey
, the verses of Hölderlin and
Death in Venice
by Thomas Mann.
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