
Jaccottet in 1991
Native name	Philippe Jaccottet
Born	(1925-06-30)30 June 1925 Moudon, Switzerland
Died	24 February 2021(2021-02-24) (aged 95) Grignan, France
Language	French

Philippe Jaccottet (French: [filip ʒakotɛ]; 30 June 1925 – 24 February 2021) was a Swiss Francophone poet and translator.

Life and work

After completing his studies in Lausanne, he lived for several years in Paris. In 1953, he 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 was the fourth Swiss author to be published in the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade.^[3]

Jaccottet died in Grignan, France, in February 2021 at the age of 95.^[4]

Honours

1958 Prix des écrivains vaudois
1966 Johann-Heinrich-Voß-Preis für Übersetzung
1981 Prix Gottfried Keller
1985 Grand Prix de Poésie de la Ville de Paris
1988 Petrarca-Preis
1995 Grand Prix national de Poésie
2003 Prix Goncourt de la poésie^[5]
2018 Prix mondial Cino Del Duca^[6]

Publications

L'Effraie, 1953
L'Entretien des muses, 1968
Paysages avec figures absentes, 1970
Chant d'En-bas, 1974
Rilke par lui-même, 1971
À la lumière d'hiver, 1974
Des Histoires de passage, 1983
Pensées sous les nuages, 1983
La Semaison, Carnets 1954-1967, 1984
Une Transaction secrète, 1987
Cahier de verdure, 1990 (poem Cherry Tree, Eng. trans. Mark Treharne)
Requiem, 1991
Libretto, La Dogana, 1990
Poésie, 1946-1967, Poésie/Gallimard, Paris, (1971) 1990
Requiem (1946) ; suivi de, Remarques (1990), Fata Morgana, 1991
Cristal et fumée, Fata Morgana, 1993
A la lumière d'hiver ; précédé de, Leçons ; et de, Chants d'en bas ; et suivi de, Pensées sous les nuages, Gallimard, 1994 (poem Learning, trans. Mark Treharne, Delos Press, 2001)
Après beaucoup d'années, Gallimard, 1994
Autriche, Éditions L'Age d'homme, 1994
Eaux prodigues, Nasser Assar, lithographies, La Sétérée, J. Clerc, 1994
Ecrits pour papier journal : chroniques 1951-1970, texts gathered and présented by Jean Pierre Vidal, Gallimard, 1994
Tout n'est pas dit : billets pour la Béroche : 1956-1964, Le Temps qu'il fait, 1994
La seconde semaison : carnets 1980-1994, Gallimard, 1996
Beauregard, postf. d'Adrien Pasquali, Éditions Zoé, 1997
Paysages avec figures absentes, Gallimard, Paris, (1976) 1997, "coll. poésie/gallimard".
Observations et autres notes anciennes : 1947-1962, Gallimard, 1998
A travers un verger ; suivi de, Les cormorans ; et de, Beauregard, Gallimard, 2000
Carnets 1995-1998 : la semaison III, Gallimard, 2001
Notes du ravin, Fata Morgana, 2001
Et, néanmoins : proses et poésies, Gallimard, 2001
Le bol du pèlerin (Morandi), La Dogana, 2001.
Une Constellation, tout près, La Dogana, 2002.
A partir du mot Russie, Fata Morgana, 2002
Gustave Roud, présentation et choix de textes par Philippe Jaccottet, Seghers, 2002
Correspondance, 1942 - 1976 / Philippe Jaccottet, Gustave Roud ; éd. établie, annotée et présentée par José-Flore Tappy, Gallimard, 2002
Nuages, Philippe Jaccottet, Alexandre Hollan, Fata Morgana, 2002
Cahier de verdure ; suivi de, Après beaucoup d'années, Gallimard, "coll. poésie/gallimard", 2003
Truinas, le 21 avril 2001, Genève, La Dogana, 2004
De la poésie, entretien avec Reynald André Chalard, Arléa, 2005

Notes and references

Bibliography

External links

Recipients of the Mondello Prize

Recipients of the Mondello Prize
Single Prize for Literature: Bartolo Cattafi (1975) • Achille Campanile (1976) • Günter Grass (1977)
Special Jury Prize: Denise McSmith (1975) • Stefano D'Arrigo (1977) • Jurij Trifonov (1978) • Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz (1979) • Pietro Consagra (1980) • Ignazio Buttitta, Angelo Maria e Ela Ripellino (1983) • Leonardo Sciascia (1985) • Wang Meng (1987) • Mikhail Gorbaciov (1988) • Peter Carey, José Donoso, Northrop Frye, Jorge Semprún, Wole Soyinka, Lu Tongliu (1990) • Fernanda Pivano (1992) • Associazione Scrittori Cinesi (1993) • Dong Baoucum, Fan Boaci, Wang Huanbao, Shi Peide, Chen Yuanbin (1995) • Xu Huainzhong, Xiao Xue, Yu Yougqnan, Qin Weinjung (1996) • Khushwant Singh (1997) • Javier Marías (1998) • Francesco Burdin (2001) • Luciano Erba (2002) • Isabella Quarantotti De Filippo (2003) • Marina Rullo (2006) • Andrea Ceccherini (2007) • Enrique Vila-Matas (2009) • Francesco Forgione (2010)
First narrative work: Carmelo Samonà (1978) • Fausta Garavini (1979)
First poetic work: Giovanni Giuga (1978) • Gilberto Sacerdoti (1979)
Prize for foreign literature: Milan Kundera (1978) • N. Scott Momaday (1979) • Juan Carlos Onetti (1980) • Tadeusz Konwicki (1981)
Prize for foreign poetry: Jannis Ritsos (1978) • Joseph Brodsky (1979) • Juan Gelman (1980) • Gyula Illyés (1981)
First work: Valerio Magrelli (1980) • Ferruccio Benzoni, Stefano Simoncelli, Walter Valeri, Laura Mancinelli (1981) • Jolanda Insana (1982) • Daniele Del Giudice (1983) • Aldo Busi (1984) • Elisabetta Rasy, Dario Villa (1985) • Marco Lodoli, Angelo Mainardi (1986) • Marco Ceriani, Giovanni Giudice (1987) • Edoardo Albinati, Silvana La Spina (1988) • Andrea Canobbio, Romana Petri (1990) • Anna Cascella (1991) • Marco Caporali, Nelida Milani (1992) • Silvana Grasso, Giulio Mozzi (1993) • Ernesto Franco (1994) • Roberto Deidier (1995) • Giuseppe Quatriglio, Tiziano Scarpa (1996) • Fabrizio Rondolino (1997) • Alba Donati (1998) • Paolo Febbraro (1999) • Evelina Santangelo (2000) • Giuseppe Lupo (2001) • Giovanni Bergamini, Simona Corso (2003) • Adriano Lo Monaco (2004) • Piercarlo Rizzi (2005) • Francesco Fontana (2006) • Paolo Fallai (2007) • Luca Giachi (2008) • Carlo Carabba (2009) • Gabriele Pedullà (2010)
Foreign author: Alain Robbe-Grillet (1982) • Thomas Bernhard (1983) • Adolfo Bioy Casares (1984) • Bernard Malamud (1985) • Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1986) • Doris Lessing (1987) • V. S. Naipaul (1988) • Octavio Paz (1989) • Christa Wolf (1990) • Kurt Vonnegut (1991) • Bohumil Hrabal (1992) • Seamus Heaney (1993) • J. M. Coetzee (1994) • Vladimir Vojnovič (1995) • David Grossman (1996) • Philippe Jaccottet (1998) • Don DeLillo (1999) • Aleksandar Tišma (2000) • Nuruddin Farah (2001) • Per Olov Enquist (2002) • Adunis (2003) • Les Murray (2004) • Magda Szabó (2005) • Uwe Timm (2006) • Bapsi Sidhwa (2007) • Viktor Yerofeyev (2009) • Edmund White (2010) • Javier Cercas (2011) • Elizabeth Strout (2012) • Péter Esterházy (2013) • Joe R. Lansdale (2014) • Emmanuel Carrère (2015) • Marilynne Robinson (2016) • Cees Nooteboom (2017)
Italian Author: Alberto Moravia (1982) • Vittorio Sereni alla memoria (1983) • Italo Calvino (1984) • Mario Luzi (1985) • Paolo Volponi (1986) • Luigi Malerba (1987) • Oreste del Buono (1988) • Giovanni Macchia (1989) • Gianni Celati, Emilio Villa (1990) • Andrea Zanzotto (1991) • Ottiero Ottieri (1992) • Attilio Bertolucci (1993) • Luigi Meneghello (1994) • Fernando Bandini, Michele Perriera (1995) • Nico Orengo (1996) • Giuseppe Bonaviri, Giovanni Raboni (1997) • Carlo Ginzburg (1998) • Alessandro Parronchi (1999) • Elio Bartolini (2000) • Roberto Alajmo (2001) • Andrea Camilleri (2002) • Andrea Carraro, Antonio Franchini, Giorgio Pressburger (2003) • Maurizio Bettini, Giorgio Montefoschi, Nelo Risi (2004) • pr. Raffaele Nigro, sec. Maurizio Cucchi, ter. Giuseppe Conte (2005) • pr. Paolo Di Stefano, sec. Giulio Angioni (2006) • pr. Mario Fortunato, sec. Toni Maraini, ter. Andrea Di Consoli (2007) • pr. Andrea Bajani, sec. Antonio Scurati, ter. Flavio Soriga (2008) • pr. Mario Desiati, sec. Osvaldo Guerrieri, ter. Gregorio Scalise (2009) • pr. Lorenzo Pavolini, sec. Roberto Cazzola, ter. (2010) • pr. Eugenio Baroncelli, sec. Milo De Angelis, ter. Igiaba Scego (2011) • pr. Edoardo Albinati, sec. Paolo Di Paolo, ter. Davide Orecchio (2012) • pr. Andrea Canobbio, sec. Valerio Magrelli, ter. Walter Siti (2013) • pr. Irene Chias, sec. Giorgio Falco, ter. Francesco Pecoraro (2014) • pr. Nicola Lagioia, sec. Letizia Muratori, ter. Marco Missiroli (2015) • pr. Marcello Fois, sec. Emanuele Tonon, ter. Romana Petri (2016) • pr. Stefano Massini, sec. Alessandro Zaccuri, ter. Alessandra Sarchi (2017)
"Five Continents" Award: Kōbō Abe, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Germaine Greer, Wilson Harris, José Saramago (1992) • Kenzaburō Ōe (1993) • Stephen Spender (1994) • Thomas Keneally, Alberto Arbasino (1996) • Margaret Atwood, André Brink, David Malouf, Romesh Gunesekera, Christoph Ransmayr (1997)
"Palermo bridge for Europe" Award: Dacia Maraini (1999), Premio Palermo ponte per il Mediterraneo Alberto Arbasino (2000)
"Ignazio Buttitta" Award: Nino De Vita (2003) • Attilio Lolini (2005) • Roberto Rossi Precerotti (2006) • Silvia Bre (2007)
Supermondello Tiziano Scarpa (2009) • Michela Murgia (2010) • Eugenio Baroncelli (2011) • Davide Orecchio (2012) • Valerio Magrelli (2013) • Giorgio Falco (2014) • Marco Missiroli (2015) • Romana Petri (2016) • Stefano Massini (2017)
Special award of the President: Ibrahim al-Koni (2009) • Emmanuele Maria Emanuele (2010) • Antonio Calabrò (2011)
Poetry prize: Antonio Riccardi (2010)
Translation Award: Evgenij Solonovic (2010)
Identity and dialectal literatures award: Gialuigi Beccaria e Marco Paolini (2010)
Essays Prize: Marzio Barbagli (2010)
Mondello for Multiculturality Award: Kim Thúy (2011)
Mondello Youths Award: Claudia Durastanti (2011) • Edoardo Albinati (2012) • Alessandro Zaccuri (2017)
"Targa Archimede", Premio all'Intelligenza d'Impresa: Enzo Sellerio (2011)
Prize for Literary Criticism: Salvatore Silvano Nigro (2012) • Maurizio Bettini (2013) • Enrico Testa (2014) • Ermanno Cavazzoni (2015) • Serena Vitale (2016) • Antonio Prete (2017)
Award for best motivation: Simona Gioè (2012)
Special award for travel literature: Marina Valensise (2013)
Special Award 40 Years of Mondello: Gipi (2014)

List of Gottfried-Keller-Preis winners

1922: Jakob Bosshart
1925: Heinrich Federer
1927: Charles Ferdinand Ramuz
1929: Josef Nadler
1931: Hans Carossa
1933: Festgabe Universität Zürich
1936: Hermann Hesse
1938: Ernst Gagliardi
1943: Robert Faesi
1947: Fritz Ernst
1949: Rudolf Kassner
1952: Gertrud von Le Fort
1954: Werner Kaegi
1956: Max Rychner
1959: Maurice Zermatten
1962: Emil Staiger
1965: Meinrad Inglin
1967: Edzard Schaper
1969: Golo Mann
1971: Marcel Raymond
1973: Ignazio Silone
1975: Hans Urs von Balthasar
1977: Elias Canetti
1979: Max Wehrli
1981: Philippe Jaccottet
1983: Hermann Lenz
1985: Herbert Lüthy
1989: Jacques Mercanton
1992: Erika Burkart
1994: Gerhard Meier
1997: Giovanni Orelli
1999: Peter Bichsel
2001: Ágota Kristóf
2004: Klaus Merz
2007: Fabio Pusterla
2010: Gerold Späth
2013: Collective of writers Bern ist überall
2016: Pietro De Marchi
2019: Adolf Muschg and Thomas Hürlimann

List of Schiller Prize winners

List of Schiller Prize winners
Grand Prix	1920: Carl Spitteler 1922: Jakob Bosshart 1923: Philippe Godet 1928: Francesco Chiesa 1930: Jakob Schaffner 1936: Charles Ferdinand Ramuz 1943: Peider Lansel 1948: Meinrad Inglin 1955: Gonzague de Reynold 1960: Friedrich Dürrenmatt 1973: Max Frisch 1982: Denis de Rougemont 1988: Giorgio Orelli 1992: Hugo Loetscher 1997: Maurice Chappaz 2000: Grytzko Mascioni 2005: Erika Burkart 2010: Philippe Jaccottet 2012: Giovanni Orelli and Peter Bichsel
Schiller Prize	1938: Maurice Zermatten 1938: Charles-François Landry 1939: Charles-François Landry 1942: Pericle Patocchi and Alice Rivaz 1943: Jean-Georges Lossier 1944: Charles-François Landry 1949: Charles-François Landry 1950: Georges Méautis 1951: Maria Lauber 1956: Maurice Zermatten 1957: Charles-François Landry 1960: Léon Savary 1961: Jean Starobinski andJean-Pierre Monnier 1963: Jacques Chessex 1964: Pierrette Micheloud 1967: Jean Pache 1969: Alexandre Voisard 1971: Georges Haldas 1974: S. Corinna Bille 1976: Jean-Claude Fontanet 1977: Georges Haldas and Monique Laederach 1978: Mireille Kuttel 1978: Jean Pache 1979: Anne Cuneo 1980: Pierrette Micheloud and Jean-Pierre Monnier 1983: Nicolas Bouvier and Monique Laederach 1984: Catherine Safonoff 1985: Hugo Loetscher 1987: Peter Bichsel and Laurence Verrey 1988: Amélie Plume 1989: Franz Böni 1992: Gisèle Ansorge 1995: Jean-Bernard Vuillème 1996: Yvette Z'Graggen 1998: Jean-Luc Benoziglio 1999: François Debluë 2000: Fabio Pusterla and Monique Laederach 2001: Jean-François Duval 2002: Noëlle Revaz 2003: Benoît Damon 2004: François Debluë 2005: Ágota Kristóf 2006: Jacques Probst 2007: José-Flore Tappy 2008: Jean-François Haas 2009: Pascale Kramer 2011: Thomas Sandoz 2012: Nicolas Verdan
Découverte prize	2006: Catherine Lovey 2009: Dominique de Rivaz 2011: Douna Loup

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