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Philippe Jaccottet (born in Moudon, Switzerland, on June 30, 1925) is a poet and translator who publishes in French.

After completing his studies in Lausanne, he lived several years in Paris. In 1953, came to live in the town of Grignan in Provence. He has translated into French Goethe, Hölderlin, Mann, Mandelstam, Góngora, Leopardi, Musil, Rilke, and Ungaretti, as well as Homer's Odyssey.

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