Fleur Jaeggy

Born in Zurich, the novelist and translator Fleur Jaeggy moved to Italy after leaving boarding school and giving up on a modeling career. She writes all of her novels in Italian and has translated Thomas de Quincey and Marcel Schwob into her adopted language. “Her sentences are hard and compact, more gem than flesh,” Sheila Heti wrote in a review of Jaeggy’s work. “Images appear as flashes, discontinuous, arresting, then gone. Connective sentences are excised; there is sometimes a struggle to know where one is.”