, on June 30, 1925) is a poet

Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

 and translator who publishes in French.

After completing his studies in Lausanne

Lausanne

Lausanne is a city in Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland, and is the capital of the canton of Vaud. The seat of the district of Lausanne, the city is situated on the shores of Lake Geneva . It faces the French town of Évian-les-Bains, with the Jura mountains to its north-west...

, he lived several years in Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

. In 1953, came to live in the town of Grignan

Grignan

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 in Provence

Provence

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. He has translated into French Goethe, Hölderlin

Friedrich Hölderlin

Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin was a major German lyric poet, commonly associated with the artistic movement known as Romanticism. Hölderlin was also an important thinker in the development of German Idealism, particularly his early association with and philosophical influence on his...

, Mann

Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual...

, Mandelstam

Osip Mandelstam

Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam was a Russian poet and essayist who lived in Russia during and after its revolution and the rise of the Soviet Union. He was one of the foremost members of the Acmeist school of poets...

, Góngora

Luis de Góngora

Luis de Góngora y Argote was a Spanish Baroque lyric poet. Góngora and his lifelong rival, Francisco de Quevedo, are widely considered to be the most prominent Spanish poets of their age. His style is characterized by what was called culteranismo, also known as Gongorism...

, Leopardi

Giacomo Leopardi

Giacomo Taldegardo Francesco di Sales Saverio Pietro Leopardi was an Italian poet, essayist, philosopher, and philologist...

, Musil

Robert Musil

Robert Musil was an Austrian writer. His unfinished long novel The Man Without Qualities is generally considered to be one of the most important modernist novels...

, Rilke

Rainer Maria Rilke

René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke , better known as Rainer Maria Rilke, was a Bohemian–Austrian poet. He is considered one of the most significant poets in the German language...

, and Ungaretti

Giuseppe Ungaretti

Giuseppe Ungaretti was an Italian modernist poet, journalist, essayist, critic and academic. A leading representative of the experimental trend known as Ermetismo , he was one of the most prominent contributors to 20th century Italian literature. Influenced by symbolism, he was briefly aligned...

, as well as Homer

Homer

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's Odyssey

Odyssey

The Odyssey is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, the other work ascribed to Homer. The poem is fundamental to the modern Western canon, and is the second—the Iliad being the first—extant work of Western literature...

. As a poet he was awarded the German international Petrarca-Preis

Petrarca-Preis

Petrarca-Preis is a European literary award named after the Italian Renaissance poet Francesco Petrarca or Petrarch. It was founded in 1975 by German art historian and publisher Hubert Burda, and is primarily designed for contemporary European poets, but also epicists appear in the list of...

 in 1988

1988 in literature

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.

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 ;
• 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
• 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, textes réunis et présentés par 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
• ; 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

Honors

• Prix des écrivains vaudois, 1958
• Prix Gottfried Keller (site officiel), 1981.
• Grand Prix de Poésie de la Ville de Paris, 1985.
• Petrarca-Preis
  Petrarca-Preis
  Petrarca-Preis is a European literary award named after the Italian Renaissance poet Francesco Petrarca or Petrarch. It was founded in 1975 by German art historian and publisher Hubert Burda, and is primarily designed for contemporary European poets, but also epicists appear in the list of...
  
  , 1988
• Grand Prix national de Poésie, 1995.
• Prix Goncourt de la Poésie
  Prix Goncourt
  The Prix Goncourt is a prize in French literature, given by the académie Goncourt to the author of "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year"...
  
  , 2003.

External links

• Philippe Jaccottet traducteur et poète : une esthétique de l'effacement, mémoire de maîtrise de Mathilde Vischer
• La poétique de l'espace dans l'œuvre de Philippe Jaccottet, mémoire de licence de Damien Berdot
• Jaccottet et la poétique, article de J.M. Maulpoix.