WRITER

Fleur Jaeggy

1940 - Today

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Fleur Jaeggy (born 31 July 1940) is a Swiss author who writes in Italian. The Times Literary Supplement named her work Proleterka as a Best Book of the Year upon its US publication, and her Sweet Days of Discipline won the Premio Bagutta and the Premio Speciale Rapallo. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fleur Jaeggy has received more than 90,415 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Fleur Jaeggy is the 3,869th most popular writer (down from 3,547th in 2019), the 395th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 350th in 2019) and the 37th most popular Swiss Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 90k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.60

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.90

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.30

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Sweet days of discipline
Fiction, Boarding schools, Fiction, general
1991
I beati anni del castigo
1990
Proleterka
2004
Proleterka
2018
Proleterka
2001
The Water Statues
Romance literature
2021

Page views of Fleur Jaeggies by language

Over the past year Fleur Jaeggy has had the most page views in the with 21,212 views, followed by English (12,967), and Spanish (3,147). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Portuguese (485.59%), Finnish (415.00%), and Latin (84.04%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Fleur Jaeggy ranks 3,869 out of 7,302. Before her are William Hazlitt, Ari Behn, Yosef Haim Brenner, Grigor Parlichev, Johann Baptist Allgaier, and Margaret Weis. After her are Jean-Pierre Thiollet, Teresa de Lauretis, Shushanik Kurghinian, Nikolay Novikov, Arthur Waley, and Maria Deraismes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Fleur Jaeggy ranks 282. Before her are Fakhruddin Ahmed, Johnny Nash, Levon Helm, Richard Lynch, Jacques Duquesne, and Jia Qinglin. After her are Nanni Galli, Vladimir Vasiliev, Gennadi Strekalov, Ansumane Mané, Sharad Pawar, and Philippe Léotard.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy ranks 395 out of 1,015. Before her are René Burri (1933), Samuel Schmid (1947), Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy, Prince of Venice (1972), Henry, Duke of Parma (1873), Robert Pinget (1919), and Thomas Bickel (1963). After her are Robert Ballaman (1926), Gottfried von Einem (1918), Murat Yakin (1974), Jacques-Louis Soret (1827), Peter Bichsel (1935), and Pirmin Zurbriggen (1963).

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Among WRITERS In Switzerland

Among writers born in Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy ranks 37. Before her are Isaac Casaubon (1559), Ella Maillart (1903), Françoise Giroud (1916), Theodore Bibliander (1500), Philippe Jaccottet (1925), and Robert Pinget (1919). After her are Peter Bichsel (1935), Fernán Caballero (1796), Nicolas Bouvier (1929), Johann David Wyss (1743), Alain de Botton (1969), and Martin Suter (1948).

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