Philippe Jaccottet

Philippe Jaccottet (1925-2021) was born in Moudon in Western Switzerland. He went to school to Lausanne and went to university there. After living briefly in Rome and Paris, he married the painter Anne-Maire Hasler in 1953 and lived in Grignan in the South of France. Besides poetry, Jaccottet’s first book of poems was published in 1953, he also wrote prose, in which he reflected poetically on his work as a poet and translator. He translated into French the works of Homer, Tasso, Leopardi, Ungaretti and Montale and from German the works of Rilke, Hölderlin, Thomas Mann, Ludwig Hohl and Robert Musil. Jaccottet died in 2021 in Grignan.