Fleur Jaeggy

Oct 24, 2023 | powells.com | Jamaica Kincaid |Kim Hyesoon |Don Mee Choi |Fleur Jaeggy

The journey of writing Organ Meats was far from linear; it was more like the patchwork process of creating a quilt. Foraging from inherited histories, oral stories, and inspirational texts, I conceived of this novel as a vessel for collectives of women. The two girls at the center of the novel, Anita and Rainie, are haunted by a chorus of feral dogs who narrate their hungry ancestry, giving voice to generations of deferred desire. As always, I was inspired by writers in translation.

Jul 19, 2023 | lrb.co.uk | Jenny Turner |Fleur Jaeggy |Gini Alhadeff

After​ the death of his mother, a man called Beeklam turns to collecting statues, which he keeps in the flooded basement of his house in Amsterdam. Thelma, he calls one specimen – it was his mother’s name. Others are Rosalind, Diane, Magdalena, Gertrud, after his mother’s friends.