Alex 'Lex' Jacoby (28 February 1930 – 20 November 2015) was a

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. He wrote

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poem Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings in ...

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articles. He was born in

Junglinster Junglinster ( lb, Jonglënster) is a commune in central Luxembourg, which draws its name from its principal town, Junglinster. It is one of six communes in the Luxembourg canton of Grevenmacher. The 18th-century St Martin's church is a nationa ...

. His early works were written in the

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, Later Jacoby dedicated himself to writing exclusively in German. Before pursuing writing full-time, Jacoby was a

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Clervaux Clervaux (; lb, Clierf or (locally) ; german: Clerf) is a commune and town in northern Luxembourg, administrative capital of the canton of Clervaux. The town's arms, granted in 1896, show three blackbirds on a gold ground in the chief of a red ...

Works

* ''Die Sehnsucht des Schamanen'' (1952) * ''Der Fremde'' (1954) * ''Le Pavot Blanc'' (1963) * ''Luxemburg'' (1963) * ''Der Grenzstein'' (1963) * ''Nachts gehen die Fische an Land'' (1980) * ''Das Logbuch der Arche'' (1988) * ''Der fromme Staub der Feldwege'' (1990) * ''Spanien heiter bis wolkig'' (1994) * ''Wasserzeichen'' (1995) * ''Remis in der Provence'' (2000) * ''Wie nicht ganz schwarzer Kohlenstein'' (2001) * ''Die Deponie'' (2006)

References

External links

National Literature Centre profile
Luxembourgian novelists Luxembourgian poets Luxembourgian educators 1930 births 2015 deaths People from Junglinster {{Luxembourg-writer-stub